# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-charles-melliss
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:41:13.355Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-charles-melliss"
name: "John Charles Melliss"
slug: "john-charles-melliss"
description: "John Charles Melliss was a British engineer and amateur naturalist. He lived in St. Helena and wrote a book on the geology, history and geography of the island in 1875. He also wrote on the natural history of the island. J.D. Hooker named the genus Mellissia in his honour."
tagline: "British engineer and amateur naturalist (1835–1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Charles_Melliss.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1835-01-23"
deathDate: "1911-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.82
  momentum:             15
  historical:           3.734305333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Melliss"
    title: "John Charles Melliss"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Melliss"
    title: "John Charles Melliss"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Melliss"
    title: "John Charles Melliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Melliss"
    title: "John Charles Melliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699596"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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