# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-erik-van-wyk
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:25:35.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-erik-van-wyk"
name: "Ben-Erik van Wyk"
slug: "ben-erik-van-wyk"
description: "Ben-Erik van Wyk FAAS is a South African professor of indigenous botany and traditional African medicine at the University of Johannesburg."
tagline: "South African botanist (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BenErikVanWykFotoThalerTamas.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-12-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.95
  momentum:             4.5
  historical:           5.937329333333334
  currentAttention:     25
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Erik_van_Wyk"
    title: "Ben-Erik van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Erik_van_Wyk"
    title: "Ben-Erik van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Erik_van_Wyk"
    title: "Ben-Erik van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Erik_van_Wyk"
    title: "Ben-Erik van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Erik_Van_Wyk"
    title: "Ben-Erik Van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Erik_van_Wyk"
    title: "Ben-Erik van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Erik_van_Wyk"
    title: "Ben-Erik van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2024682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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