# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-francis-blanford
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:49:31.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-francis-blanford"
name: "Henry Francis Blanford"
slug: "henry-francis-blanford"
description: "Henry Francis Blanford was a British meteorologist and palaeontologist who worked in India. He was a younger brother of the naturalist William Thomas Blanford, both of whom joined the Geological Survey of India in 1855. Henry was the first official meteorologist in India, appointed as Imperial Meteorological Reporter in 1875."
tagline: "British scientist (1834-1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Francis_Blanford.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: "1834-06-03"
deathDate: "1893-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.15
  momentum:             2.61574074074074
  historical:           5.269798666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Henry Francis Blanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هنرى فرانسيس بلانفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Francis_Blanford"
    title: "Henry Francis Blanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Francis_Blanford"
    title: "Henry Francis Blanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrijs_Fr%C4%81nsiss_Blanfords"
    title: "Henrijs Frānsiss Blanfords"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Бланфорд, Генри Фрэнсис"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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