# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-ritchie
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:08:18.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-ritchie"
name: "James Ritchie"
slug: "james-ritchie"
description: "James Ritchie CBE PRSE was a Scottish naturalist and archaeologist, who was Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh 1936–52 and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1952–1958."
tagline: "British naturalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Ritchie._Photogravure._Wellcome_V0027079.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1882-05-27"
deathDate: "1958-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.3
  momentum:             5.686274509803922
  historical:           4.60288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ritchie_(Zoologe)"
    title: "James Ritchie (Zoologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ritchie_(naturalist)"
    title: "James Ritchie (naturalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ritchie_(naturaliste)"
    title: "James Ritchie (naturaliste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ritchie"
    title: "James Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15969066"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1145375"
    title: "James Ritchie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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