# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshisada-shimizu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:02:34.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshisada-shimizu"
name: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
slug: "yoshisada-shimizu"
description: "Yoshisada Shimizu  is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of hundreds of asteroids since 1993. An orthopaedist by profession, he is also known as an astrophotographer."
tagline: "Japanese astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.265822784810127
  historical:           13.13653733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "يوشيسادا شيميزو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
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    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshisada_Shimizu"
    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshisada_Shimizu"
    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshisada_Shimizu"
    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%B8%D5%B7%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%A4%D5%A1_%D5%8D%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%B1%D5%B8%D6%82"
    title: "Յոշիսադա Սիմիձու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshisada_Shimizu"
    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E6%B0%B4%E7%BE%A9%E5%AE%9A"
    title: "清水義定"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshisada_Shimizu"
    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
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    title: "Yoshisada Shimizu"
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    title: "Симидзу, Ёсисада"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump