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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** 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.
