# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-william-ravenel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:40:32.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-william-ravenel"
name: "Henry William Ravenel"
slug: "henry-william-ravenel"
description: "Henry William Ravenel was an American planter and botanist. He studied fungi and cryptogams in South Carolina, discovering a large number of new species. The genus Ravenelia is named after him, along with many of the species he discovered."
tagline: "United States botanist (1814-1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_William_Ravenel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1814-05-19"
deathDate: "1887-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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    title: "Henry William Ravenel"
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    title: "Henry William Ravenel"
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    title: "Равенель, Генри Уильям"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump