# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/desmond-w-helmore
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:54:36.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/desmond-w-helmore"
name: "Desmond W. Helmore"
slug: "desmond-w-helmore"
description: "Desmond W. Helmore is a New Zealand artist and illustrator, known both for his fine art and for his scientific work depicting insects, not least illustrating the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. One of the country's most noted and prolific biological illustrators, over 1000 of his illustrations of insects were published in research papers from 1976 to 2006."
tagline: "New Zealand scientific illustrator, fine-art painter and scientific collector"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Des_Helmore%2C_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.18
  momentum:             3.227513227513228
  historical:           4.606012
  currentAttention:     4.761904761904763
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Des-Helmore-100004113048983"
    handle:    "Des-Helmore-100004113048983"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ديسموند دبليو. هيلمور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Helmore"
    title: "Des Helmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Helmore"
    title: "Des Helmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Helmore"
    title: "Des Helmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_W._Helmore"
    title: "Desmond W. Helmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21393606"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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