# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-parkinson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:36:34.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-parkinson"
name: "John Parkinson"
slug: "john-parkinson"
description: "John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. He was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I. He is known for two monumental works, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, which generally describes the proper cultivation of plants; and Theatrum Botanicum, the most complete and beautifully presented English treatise on plants of its time. One of the most eminent gardeners of his day, he kept a botanical garden at Long Acre in Covent Garden, today close to Trafalgar Square, and maintained close relations with other important English and Continental botanists, herbalists and plantsmen."
tagline: "English herbalist and botanist (1567-1650)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John-Parkinson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1567"
deathDate: "1650-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.01
  momentum:             4.644836322892588
  historical:           14.02502
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump