# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-heyne
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:27:19.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-heyne"
name: "Benjamin Heyne"
slug: "benjamin-heyne"
description: "Benjamin Heyne FLS was a German botanist, naturalist, and surgeon who worked in British India as a Botanist to Samalkot in the Madras Presidency under the British East India Company. He collected and described plants from southern India, many of which were named after him by European botanists."
tagline: "Scottish botanist (1770-1819)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1770-01-01"
deathDate: "1819-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.79
  momentum:             5.714285714285715
  historical:           7.870122666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Heyne"
    title: "Benjamin Heyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بينچامين هين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Heyne"
    title: "Benjamin Heyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Heyne"
    title: "Benjamin Heyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Heyne"
    title: "Benjamin Heyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Heyne"
    title: "Benjamin Heyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Heyne"
    title: "Benjamin Heyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ベンジャミン・ヘイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B5%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Хайне, Беньямин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91498"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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