# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-macadam
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:36.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-macadam"
name: "John Macadam"
slug: "john-macadam"
description: "John Macadam, was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical doctor, medical teacher, Australian politician and cabinet minister, and honorary secretary of the Burke and Wills expedition. The genus Macadamia was named after him in 1857. He died at sea, on a voyage from Australia to New Zealand, aged 38."
tagline: "Australian academic (1827-1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Macadam_(1827%E2%80%931865).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1827"
deathDate: "1865-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.89
  momentum:             1.829268292682927
  historical:           7.028728
  currentAttention:     10.16260162601626
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macadam"
    title: "John Macadam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macadam"
    title: "John Macadam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85_(%D8%AF%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "جون مكادم (دكتور من اوستراليا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macadam"
    title: "John Macadam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macadam"
    title: "John Macadam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macadam"
    title: "John Macadam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macadam"
    title: "John Macadam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%B4"
    title: "Ջոն Մակադամ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q904632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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