# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-dickson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:45:42.292Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-dickson"
name: "James Dickson"
slug: "james-dickson"
description: "James (Jacobus) J. Dickson (1738–1822) was a Scottish nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist. Between 1785 and 1801 he published his Fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae, a four-volume work in which he published over 400 species of algae and fungi that occur in the British Isles He is also the editor of the exsiccata work Hortus siccus Britannicus, being a collection of dried British plants, named on the authority of the Linnean herbarium and other original collections (1793–1802)."
tagline: "Scottish nurseryman and botanist (1738-1822)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Dickson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1738"
deathDate: "1822-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.904823989569752
  historical:           9.60558
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Джеймс Діксон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس ديكسون (هورتيكولتوريست من المملكه المتحده لبريطانيا العظمى و ايرلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dickson"
    title: "James Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dickson_(botanist)"
    title: "James Dickson (botanist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dickson"
    title: "James Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dickson_(botaniste)"
    title: "James Dickson (botaniste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dickson"
    title: "James Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dickson_(biolog)"
    title: "James Dickson (biolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dickson"
    title: "James Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Диксон, Джеймс (ботаник)"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Dickson"
    title: "James J. Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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