# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-alexander-wickham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:21.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-alexander-wickham"
name: "Henry Alexander Wickham"
slug: "henry-alexander-wickham"
description: "Sir Henry Alexander Wickham was a British explorer. He was the first person to smuggle a large, viable shipment of Brazilian rubber seeds to the British Empire. The British had long planned to create rubber plantations in Southeast Asia, and the plantations resulting from the seeds Wickham smuggled out of Brazil expanded the rubber industry and broke Brazil’s monopoly, bringing about the end of the Amazon rubber boom."
tagline: "British botanist and self-declared \"biopirate\" (1846-1928)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Henry_Wickham_LCCN2014718318.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1846-05-29"
deathDate: "1928-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.48
  momentum:             1.38996138996139
  historical:           8.786433333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%A8%E5%88%A9%C2%B7%E5%A8%81%E5%85%8B%E7%BF%B0"
    title: "亨利·威克翰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هنرى ويكهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Alexander_Wickham"
    title: "Henry Alexander Wickham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham"
    title: "Henry Wickham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham_(explorer)"
    title: "Henry Wickham (explorer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham"
    title: "Henry Wickham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham"
    title: "Henry Wickham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Alexander_Wickham"
    title: "Henry Alexander Wickham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham_(penjelajah)"
    title: "Henry Wickham (penjelajah)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham"
    title: "Henry Wickham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q514794"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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