# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-frederick-kelaart
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:53:15.963Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-frederick-kelaart"
name: "Edward Frederick Kelaart"
slug: "edward-frederick-kelaart"
description: "Lieutenant Colonel Edward Frederick Kelaart was a Ceylonese-born medical doctor and naturalist. He made some of the first systematic studies from the region and described many plants and animals from Sri Lanka."
tagline: "Sri Lankan physician (1819-1860)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/B%C3%BCste_von_E._F._Kelaart_-_Bildhauer_Henry_Weigall.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1819-11-21"
deathDate: "1860-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump