# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-willem-boudewijn-gunning
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:07:00.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-willem-boudewijn-gunning"
name: "Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning"
slug: "jan-willem-boudewijn-gunning"
description: "Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning, was a Dutch physician, who served as the director of both the Staatsmuseum and what was then known as the Pretoria Zoological Gardens."
tagline: "South African scientist (1860-1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JWB_Gunning00.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1860-09-03"
deathDate: "1913-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.48
  momentum:             16.15384615384615
  historical:           4.602088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  172
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Willem_Boudewyn_Gunning"
    title: "Jan Willem Boudewyn Gunning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._B._Gunning"
    title: "J. W. B. Gunning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Willem_Boudewijn_Gunning"
    title: "Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._B._Gunning"
    title: "J. W. B. Gunning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Willem_Bowdewyn_Gunning"
    title: "Jan Willem Bowdewyn Gunning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2688740"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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