# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-caister-bennet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:01:29.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-caister-bennet"
name: "John Caister Bennet"
slug: "john-caister-bennet"
description: "John Caister \"Jack\" Bennett, was a South African civil servant and amateur astronomer.\nHis mother was British and his father was from Tasmania. He attended school in Ficksburg and began to work in public service after graduating in 1934, initially in the forestry administration in Elgin before moving to the administration of Transvaal Province in Pretoria. During World War II he served as a soldier in South Africa, Egypt and Italy. In 1974 he retired from the public service. From 1985 he began to suffer from arthritis and soon afterwards his health deteriorated so much that he had to sell his house in Pretoria's Riviera neighborhood and move into a nursing home. He died on 30 May 1990 at the age of 76."
tagline: "South African astronomer (1914-1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1914-04-06"
deathDate: "1990-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.668718666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Caister Bennett"
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    title: "John Caister Bennett"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caister_Bennett"
    title: "John Caister Bennett"
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  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caister_Bennett"
    title: "John Caister Bennett"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caister_Bennett"
    title: "John Caister Bennett"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caister_Bennett"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump