# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gould-veitch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:20:52.114Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gould-veitch"
name: "John Gould Veitch"
slug: "john-gould-veitch"
description: "John Gould Veitch was a British horticulturist and traveller, one of the first Victorian plant hunters to visit Japan. A great-grandson of John Veitch, the founder of the Veitch horticulture dynasty, he also visited the Philippines, Australia, Fiji, and other Polynesian islands."
tagline: "British horticulturist and traveller (1839-1870)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Gould_Veitch_(1839-1870).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1839-04-17"
deathDate: "1870-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.39
  momentum:             4.51219512195122
  historical:           8.070950666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Gould Veitch"
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    title: "Вич, Джон Гулд"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump