# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-berkenhout
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:39:56.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-berkenhout"
name: "John Berkenhout"
slug: "john-berkenhout"
description: "John Berkenhout was an English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer. He was educated as a physician at Edinburgh and Leyden. While at Edinburgh he published a botanical lexicon Clavis Anglicae Linguae Botanicae. He published several works on natural history, including Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland (1769) and Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland (1789). He served as a British agent in the colonies during the American Revolution."
tagline: "British physician, naturalist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berkenhout_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1726-07-08"
deathDate: "1791-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.070896983940463
  historical:           10.73902133333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump