# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-russel-wallace
# Generated: 2026-09-02T18:08:10.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-russel-wallace"
name: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
slug: "alfred-russel-wallace"
description: "He arrived at natural selection independently, sent Darwin the paper that forced Origin into print, then spent decades as the era's greatest living authority on where animals live and why — yet most remember only the name that came first."
tagline: "British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfred-Russel-Wallace-c1895.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1823-01-08"
deathDate: "1913-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           70.96
  momentum:             9.87
  historical:           24.73566
  currentAttention:     6.392857142857142
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 76
tags:
  - name: "Scientists"
    slug: "scientists"
  - name: "Academic"
    slug: "academic"
  - name: "Mathematics"
    slug: "mathematics"
  - name: "Chemistry"
    slug: "chemistry"
  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "Biology"
    slug: "biology"
  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://wallacefund.info"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160627"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Alfred%20Russel%20Wallace"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "الفرد راسل والاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "آلفرد راسل والاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russell_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russell Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%B4_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8D%D0%BB_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81"
    title: "Альфрэд Расэл Уолес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%A0%D1%8A%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8A%D1%81"
    title: "Алфред Ръсел Уолъс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B8"
    title: "अल्फ्रेड रसेल वालस"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8"
    title: "আলফ্রেড রাসেল ওয়ালেস"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8E%D8%AF_%DA%95%DB%95%D8%B3%DA%B5_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%B5%D8%B3"
    title: "ئەلفرێد ڕەسڵ واڵس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dtp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%A1%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BB_%CE%93%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%82"
    title: "Άλφρεντ Ράσελ Γουάλας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Alfred Russel Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "آلفرد راسل والاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Rassel_Uolles"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Alfred Russel Wallace was born in England on 8 January 1823 and began fieldwork in the Amazon basin before moving to the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide still called the Wallace Line — the boundary separating Asian and Australasian animal origins across Indonesia. His 1858 paper on evolution through natural selection was published alongside extracts from Darwin's work, spurring Darwin to abandon his larger manuscript and quickly write the abstract that became On the Origin of Species in 1859. Wallace became the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species, sometimes called the father of biogeography, and worked on warning coloration, the Wallace effect in speciation, and the idea that natural selection in later human evolution acted chiefly on mental faculties rather than physical form. His 1869 account The Malay Archipelago remains both popular and highly regarded, though his later advocacy of spiritualism and belief in a non-material origin for higher human consciousness strained his standing among scientists. He died 7 November 1913, having also been a social activist, an advocate for socialism, and