# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-kingdon-ward
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:16:35.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-kingdon-ward"
name: "Frank Kingdon-Ward"
slug: "frank-kingdon-ward"
description: "Francis Kingdon-Ward, born Francis Kingdon Ward OBE, was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He published most of his books as Frank Kingdon-Ward and this hyphenated form of his name stuck, becoming the surname of his wives and two daughters. It also became a pen name for his sister Winifred Mary Ward by default."
tagline: "British botanist (1885-1958)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1885-11-06"
deathDate: "1958-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.89
  momentum:             7.777777777777776
  historical:           6.546545333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD-%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Френк Кінгдон-Ворд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kingdon-Ward"
    title: "Frank Kingdon-Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kingdon-Ward"
    title: "Frank Kingdon-Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kingdon-Ward"
    title: "Frank Kingdon-Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kingdon-Ward"
    title: "Frank Kingdon-Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD-%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA"
    title: "Кингдон-Уорд, Фрэнк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Kingdon-Ward"
    title: "Francis Kingdon-Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321094"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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