# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-pedley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:57:22.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-pedley"
name: "Leslie Pedley"
slug: "leslie-pedley"
description: "Leslie Pedley was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus Acacia. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name Racosperma, creating a split in the genus, which required some 900 Australian species to be renamed, because the type species of Acacia, Acacia nilotica, now Vachellia nilotica, had a different lineage from the Australian wattles. However, the International Botanical Congress (IBC), held in Melbourne in 2011, ratified its earlier decision to retain the name Acacia for the Australian species, but to rename the African species."
tagline: "Australian botanist (1930-2018)"
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: "1930-05-19"
deathDate: "2018-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.737005333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Леслі Педлі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ليزلى بيدلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesli_Pedli"
    title: "Lesli Pedli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Pedley"
    title: "Leslie Pedley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Pedley"
    title: "Leslie Pedley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Pedley"
    title: "Leslie Pedley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Pedley"
    title: "Leslie Pedley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Педли, Лесли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Pedley"
    title: "Leslie Pedley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Pedley"
    title: "Leslie Pedley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4347893"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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