# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-alfred-barber
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:09:20.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-alfred-barber"
name: "Charles Alfred Barber"
slug: "charles-alfred-barber"
description: "Charles Alfred Barber C.I.E. was a British botanist and specialist on sugarcane, who worked for much of his life in southern India. Saccharum barberi, a species of sugarcane that grows wild in northern India is named after him. He was a pioneer in the nobilization of wild canes in India, by producing hybrids between wild and hardy local species and the high-sugar-yielding cultivated Saccharum officinarum that could survive the cold winters of northern India. He was also involved in establishing the agricultural college at Coimbatore."
tagline: "British botanist (1860-1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/C_A_Barber.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1860-11-10"
deathDate: "1933-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  popularity:           35.56
  momentum:             15.25
  historical:           5.068142666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "സി.എ. ബാർബർ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump