# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-mccann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:14:47.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-mccann"
name: "Charles McCann"
slug: "charles-mccann"
description: "Yule Mervyn Charles McCann was a naturalist in India and New Zealand. He wrote a popular book on the trees of India and edited a major regional flora apart from publishing many of his other observations, mainly in the journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) that he was associated with. He contributed to studies of New Zealand's whales, seals, skinks and geckos."
tagline: "Indian born New Zealand botanist, biologist and naturalist (1899-1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_mccann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1899-12-04"
deathDate: "1980-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.74
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           3.934809333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McCann"
    title: "Charles McCann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Mervin_Charles_McCann"
    title: "Yale Mervin Charles McCann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_Merwyn_Charles_McCann"
    title: "Yule Merwyn Charles McCann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Mervin_Charles_McCann"
    title: "Yale Mervin Charles McCann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5080778"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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