# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-bolton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:40:13.476Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-bolton"
name: "Barry Bolton"
slug: "barry-bolton"
description: "Barry Bolton is an English myrmecologist, an expert on the classification, systematics, and taxonomy of ants, who long worked at the Natural History Museum, London. He is known especially for monographs on African and Asian ants, and for encyclopaedic global works, including the Identification Guide to Ant Genera (1994), A New General Catalogue of Ants of the World, Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae (2003), and Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World: 1758-2005 (2007). Now retired, Bolton is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Myrmecologist, Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London."
tagline: "British entomologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.75
  momentum:             0.853658536585366
  historical:           7.869870666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Баррі Болтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bolton"
    title: "Barry Bolton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بری بولتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bolton"
    title: "Barry Bolton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Барри Болтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%B0%EB%A6%AC_%EB%B3%BC%ED%84%B4"
    title: "배리 볼턴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bolton"
    title: "Barry Bolton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Болтон, Барри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bolton"
    title: "Barry Bolton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4741531"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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