# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gould
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:22:26.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gould"
name: "John Gould"
slug: "john-gould"
description: "John Gould was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. Because of his 1840s seven-volume series The Birds of Australia and its updates he has been considered the father of bird study in Australia, and the Gould League in Australia is named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed \"Darwin's finches\" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species."
tagline: "English ornithologist (1804–1881)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Gould.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1804-09-14"
deathDate: "1881-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.645573665707894
  historical:           21.25324933333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump