# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-grandison-fairchild
# Generated: 2026-09-03T09:42:06.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-grandison-fairchild"
name: "David Grandison Fairchild"
slug: "david-grandison-fairchild"
description: "David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important."
tagline: "American botanist, mycologist and explorer (1869-1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Fairchild.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1869-04-07"
deathDate: "1954-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.525862068965516
  historical:           11.37307733333333
  currentAttention:     25.14367816091954
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump