# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-wotton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:54:46.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-wotton"
name: "Edward Wotton"
slug: "edward-wotton"
description: "Edward Wotton was an English physician, born in Oxford, credited with starting the modern study of zoology, by separating out much of the fanciful and folkloric additions that had been added over time to the body of zoological knowledge."
tagline: "English physician and early zoologist (1492-1555)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_Wotton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1492"
deathDate: "1555-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.58
  momentum:             1.428571428571428
  historical:           6.335925333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wotton"
    title: "Edward Wotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wotton"
    title: "Edward Wotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wotton_(Zoologe)"
    title: "Edward Wotton (Zoologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wotton_(zoologist)"
    title: "Edward Wotton (zoologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wotton"
    title: "Edward Wotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wotton"
    title: "Edward Wotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Уоттон, Эдвард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3048505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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