# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dierdre-a-snijman
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:24:14.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dierdre-a-snijman"
name: "Dierdré A. Snijman"
slug: "dierdre-a-snijman"
description: "Dierdré \"Dee\" Anne Snijman is a South African botanist and plant taxonomist who is notable for studying and writing extensively on bulbs. She has described over 120 species and has written comprehensive works on South African flora. She received the 1997 Herbert Medal from the International Bulb Society for her research on Amaryllis."
tagline: "South African botanist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/March_lilly_grave_1.JPG/330px-March_lilly_grave_1.JPG"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.801764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dierdr%C3%A9_A._Snijman"
    title: "Dierdré A. Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dierdr%C3%A9_Snijman"
    title: "Dierdré Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A2%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديردريه آن سنيمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A2%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديردريه آن سنيمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dierdre_Snijman"
    title: "Dierdre Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dierdr%C3%A9_A._Snijman"
    title: "Dierdré A. Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dierdr%C3%A9_A._Snijman"
    title: "Dierdré A. Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dierdre_Snijman"
    title: "Dierdre Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dierdre_Snijman"
    title: "Dierdre Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdr%C3%A9_Anne_Snijman"
    title: "Deirdré Anne Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdr%C3%A9_Anne_Snijman"
    title: "Deirdré Anne Snijman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5806887"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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