# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-prain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:46:04.465Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-prain"
name: "David Prain"
slug: "david-prain"
description: "Sir David Prain was a Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew."
tagline: "Scottish botanist and phycologist (1857-1944)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/David_Prain.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1857-07-11"
deathDate: "1944-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.764705882352941
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump