# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-beddington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:47:40.398Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-beddington"
name: "John Beddington"
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description: "Sir John Rex Beddington is a British population biologist and senior adviser at the Oxford Martin School, and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, and the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2008 until 2013."
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birthDate: "1945-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump