# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jill-farrant
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:25:21.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jill-farrant"
name: "Jill Farrant"
slug: "jill-farrant"
description: "Jill Farrant, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is a leading expert on resurrection plants, which 'come back to life' from a desiccated, seemingly dead state when they are rehydrated."
tagline: "South African botanist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.99
  momentum:             2.307692307692307
  historical:           9.869330666666668
  currentAttention:     12.82051282051282
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ill-farrant-20628635/"
    handle:    "ill-farrant-20628635"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%98"
    title: "ג'יל פרנט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Фаррант, Джилл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Farrant"
    title: "Jill Farrant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump