List of Famous people with last name Fossey
Dian Fossey
First Name Dian
Last Name Fossey
Born on January 16, 1932
Born in United States of America, California
Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her 1985 murder. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. Gorillas in the Mist, a book published two years before her death, is Fossey's account of her scientific study of the gorillas at Karisoke Research Center and prior career. It was adapted into a 1988 film of the same name.
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Brigitte Fossey
Brigitte Florence Fossey is a French actress.
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