# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:46:10.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-knight"
name: "Joseph Knight"
slug: "joseph-knight"
description: "Joseph Knight, gardener to George Hibbert, was one of the first people in England to successfully propagate Proteaceae. He is remembered as the nominal author of a publication that caused one of the biggest controversies of 19th-century English botany."
tagline: "English horticulturist (1778-1855)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1778-10-07"
deathDate: "1855-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.735637333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Knight"
    title: "Joseph Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جوزيف نايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جوزيف نايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Knight_(horticulturist)"
    title: "Joseph Knight (horticulturist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Knight"
    title: "Joseph Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Knight"
    title: "Joseph Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Knight"
    title: "Joseph Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Knight"
    title: "Joseph Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Knight_(horticultor)"
    title: "Joseph Knight (horticultor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Найт, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6284642"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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