# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-vasey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:16.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-vasey"
name: "George Vasey"
slug: "george-vasey"
description: "George Vasey was an English-born American physician, botanist, and agrostologist. He practiced medicine in Illinois for nearly two decades before being appointed Chief Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture in 1872, a position he held for the remainder of his life. In 1889 the Smithsonian Institution named him Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium, the crowning achievement of his career."
tagline: "American botanist (1822–1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Vasey_(1822-1893).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1822-02-28"
deathDate: "1893-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           7.208028000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vasey"
    title: "George Vasey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vasey"
    title: "George Vasey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vasey_(botanist)"
    title: "George Vasey (botanist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vasey"
    title: "George Vasey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Vasey"
    title: "George S. Vasey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョージ・ヴェイジー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Вэйси, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vasey"
    title: "George Vasey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3036247"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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