# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-b-lellinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:21:29.003Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-b-lellinger"
name: "David B. Lellinger"
slug: "david-b-lellinger"
description: "David Bruce Lellinger is an American botanist, specializing in ferns. He began work at the Smithsonian Institution as a student assistant in 1960 and 1961. He was hired as full-time staff in 1963. He was later curator of pteridology there before retiring on 3 March 2002."
tagline: "Botanist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           30.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.467566666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Bruce Lellinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8"
    title: "ديفيد ب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Lellinger"
    title: "David B. Lellinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Lellinger"
    title: "David B. Lellinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8E%D1%81"
    title: "Леллингер, Дэвид Брюс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bruce_Lellinger"
    title: "David Bruce Lellinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4257740"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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