# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-forbes-royle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:25:44.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-forbes-royle"
name: "John Forbes Royle"
slug: "john-forbes-royle"
description: "John Forbes Royle, British botanist and teacher of materia medica (pharmacology), was born in Kanpur in India in 1798. He was in charge of the botanical garden at Saharanpur and played a role in the development of economic botany in India."
tagline: "British botanist (1799-1858)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JFRoyle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1799"
deathDate: "1858-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.073446327683616
  historical:           11.14038933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Джон Форбс Ройл"
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    title: "جون فوربس رويل"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Royle"
    title: "John Forbes Royle"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Royle"
    title: "John Forbes Royle"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Royle"
    title: "John Forbes Royle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Forbes Royle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョン・フォーブス・ロイル"
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    title: "Ройл, Джон Форбс"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Royle"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Royle"
    title: "John Forbes Royle"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump