# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-smith-q507606
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:58:44.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-smith-q507606"
name: "Andrew Smith"
slug: "andrew-smith-q507606"
description: "Sir Andrew Smith was a British surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa."
tagline: "Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist (1797–1872)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Andrew_Smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1797-12-03"
deathDate: "1872-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.34040561622465
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump