# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-milton-bigelow
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:07:10.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-milton-bigelow"
name: "John Milton Bigelow"
slug: "john-milton-bigelow"
description: "John Milton Bigelow was an American medical doctor and botanist. He had a successful medical practice, and also, a keen interest in botany - especially native plants with medical applications. He participated as a botanist and surgeon on two important expeditions through the American Southwest—the Mexican Boundary Survey and the 35th Parallel Expedition for the Pacific Railroad Surveys. He also amassed a significant collection of California plants that yielded many new species. He communicated his botanical results with the three top American botanists of the day, John Torrey, Asa Gray, and George Engelmann. Many of his botanical discoveries were named after or by him. He contributed to the botanical and medical literature of his day."
tagline: "American botanist (1804-1878)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Diplacus_bigelovii_(A._Gray)_A._Gray_var._cuspidatus_A._L._Grant_20000508_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1804"
deathDate: "1878"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.18
  momentum:             8.333333333333334
  historical:           7.204032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Milton Bigelow"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton_Bigelow"
    title: "John Milton Bigelow"
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    title: "John Milton Bigelow"
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    title: "Бигелоу, Джон Милтон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump