# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivey-foreman-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:26:47.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivey-foreman-lewis"
name: "Ivey Foreman Lewis"
slug: "ivey-foreman-lewis"
description: "Ivey Foreman Lewis was an American botanist and geneticist who served for two decades as dean of the University of Virginia and helped found the Virginia Academy of Science. A proponent of eugenics throughout his career, in his final years, Lewis and his sister Nell Battle Lewis gained national attention for their opposition to racial desegregation in public education, especially the United States Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education."
tagline: "American botanist (1882-1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivey_Foreman_Lewis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1882-08-31"
deathDate: "1964-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.35
  momentum:             11.53846153846154
  historical:           5.269078666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ivey Foreman Lewis"
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    title: "آيفي فورمان لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آيفى فورمان لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivey_Foreman_Lewis"
    title: "Ivey Foreman Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivey_Foreman_Lewis"
    title: "Ivey Foreman Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ајви Форман Луис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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