# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-gregg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:52:11.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-gregg"
name: "Josiah Gregg"
slug: "josiah-gregg"
description: "Josiah Gregg was an American merchant, explorer, naturalist, and author of Commerce of the Prairies, about the American Southwest and parts of northern Mexico. He collected many previously undescribed plants on his merchant trips and during the Mexican–American War, for which he has often been credited in botanical nomenclature. After the war he went to California, where he reportedly died of a fall from his mount due to starvation near Clear Lake on 25 February 1850, following a cross-country expedition which fixed the location of Humboldt Bay."
tagline: "Merchant, explorer, naturalist, and author (1806-1850)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josiah_Gregg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1806-07-19"
deathDate: "1850-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             15.62857142857143
  historical:           5.480058666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gregg"
    title: "Josiah Gregg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%BA"
    title: "جوزيه غريغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "جوزيه جريج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%AF"
    title: "جوشیا گریگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gregg"
    title: "Josiah Gregg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gregg"
    title: "Josiah Gregg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3186042"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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