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name: Ford Prefect
origin: Betelgeuse V
species: Betelgeusian
source: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ford_Prefect
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# Ford Prefect

Ford Prefect is an adventurous, eccentric, and existentialist Betelgeusian field researcher for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who traveled across the universe with Arthur Dent on many bizarre adventures, primarily as a crewman on the Heart of Gold and the Bistromath.
