# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hewitt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:20:08.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hewitt"
name: "John Hewitt"
slug: "john-hewitt"
description: "John Hewitt was a South African zoologist and archaeologist of British origin. He was born in Dronfield, Derbyshire, England, and died in Grahamstown, South Africa. He was the author of several herpetological papers which described new species. He also described new species of spiders and other arachnids."
tagline: "English zoologist and archaeologist (1880-1961)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/John_Hewitt00.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1880-12-23"
deathDate: "1961-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.83
  momentum:             3.037974683544304
  historical:           7.003708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hewitt"
    title: "John Hewitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جون هيويت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hewitt_(Zoologe)"
    title: "John Hewitt (Zoologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hewitt_(herpetologist)"
    title: "John Hewitt (herpetologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hewitt_(herp%C3%A9tologiste)"
    title: "John Hewitt (herpétologiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hewitt_(onye_na-ah%E1%BB%A5_maka_%E1%BB%A5m%E1%BB%A5_an%E1%BB%A5man%E1%BB%A5)"
    title: "John Hewitt (onye na-ahụ maka ụmụ anụmanụ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hewitt"
    title: "John Hewitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Хьюитт, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524221"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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