# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-banister
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:50.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-banister"
name: "John Banister"
slug: "john-banister"
description: "John Baptist Banister was an English clergyman and one of the first university-trained naturalists in North America. His primary focus was botany but he also studied insects and molluscs. He was sent out as a missionary chaplain by the garden-loving Bishop Henry Compton, with whom he soon established a correspondence. Banister was first in Barbados in the West Indies and then by April 1679 in Virginia, where, while serving a rector of the parish of Charles City he became one of Bishop Compton's most energetic plant collectors, \"the first Virginia botanist of any note\"."
tagline: "English–American clergyman and naturalist (1650-1692)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1650"
deathDate: "1692"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.22
  momentum:             4.433962264150945
  historical:           8.072174666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banister"
    title: "John Banister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Банистер Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banister_(Botaniker)"
    title: "John Banister (Botaniker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banister_(naturalist)"
    title: "John Banister (naturalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banister"
    title: "John Banister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banister"
    title: "John Banister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banister_(przyrodnik)"
    title: "John Banister (przyrodnik)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banister"
    title: "John Banister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Банистер, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1375875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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