# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-parsa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:32:42.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-parsa"
name: "Ahmad Parsa"
slug: "ahmad-parsa"
description: "Ahmad Parsa was an Iranian botanist. After obtaining his doctorate in France, he returned to Iran and became the first modern professor of Botany at Tehran in 1933. He helped establish a natural history museum with a herbarium in Tehran in 1954. He wrote eight volumes on the flora of Iran published between 1943 and 1959, in which he described over 250 new species. He has also formally published 280 names, including Parsana, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Iran belonging to the family Urticaceae."
tagline: "Iranian botanist (1907-1997)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1907-07-12"
deathDate: "1997-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.538373333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Parsa"
    title: "Ahmad Parsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Parsa"
    title: "Ahmad Parsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Parsa"
    title: "Ahmed Parsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "احمد پارسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Parsa"
    title: "Ahmad Parsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4"
    title: "Парса, Ахмад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Parsa"
    title: "Ahmad Parsa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2880959"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump