# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-augustus-grant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:42:20.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-augustus-grant"
name: "James Augustus Grant"
slug: "james-augustus-grant"
description: "Lieutenant-Colonel James Augustus Grant was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa. He made contributions to the journals of various learned societies, the most notable being the \"Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition\" in vol. xxix of the Transactions of the Linnean Society. He married in 1865 and settled down at Nairn, where he died in 1892. He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral. Grant's gazelle, one of the largest gazelles in Africa, was named after him."
tagline: "Scottish explorer and collector (1827 – 1892)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1827-04-11"
deathDate: "1892-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.8125
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "James Augustus Grant"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump