# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-hector
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:12:36.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-hector"
name: "James Hector"
slug: "james-hector"
description: "Sir James Hector was a Scottish-New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employed man of science in New Zealand, and during this period he dominated the colony's scientific institutions in a way that no single person has since."
tagline: "Scottish born New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon (1834-1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Hector_1858.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1834-03-16"
deathDate: "1907-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.21
  momentum:             7.105263157894737
  historical:           10.08121066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس هكتور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iacobus_Hector"
    title: "Iacobus Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hector"
    title: "James Hector"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Гектор, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q675726"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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