# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gillies
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:59:58.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gillies"
name: "John Gillies"
slug: "john-gillies"
description: "John Gillies was a Scottish naval surgeon who later became an explorer and botanist, travelling extensively in South America. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Afflicted by tuberculosis, Gillies left the UK aged 28 for South America in the hope that the climate would improve his fragile health. He spent eight years there, mostly in Argentina, surviving wars, civil unrest, and chronic ill health, sending numerous plants to Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew before returning in 1828. He died aged 42 at Edinburgh on 24 November 1834, his remains interred at Calton."
tagline: "Scottish botanist (1792-1834)"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1792"
deathDate: "1834-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             4.920634920634921
  historical:           8.736717333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillies_(Botaniker)"
    title: "John Gillies (Botaniker)"
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    title: "John Gillies (botanist)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillies_(bot%C3%A1nico)"
    title: "John Gillies (botánico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillies_(botaniste)"
    title: "John Gillies (botaniste)"
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    title: "Гиллис, Джон"
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    title: "John Gillies"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump