# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martyn-rix
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:24:37.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martyn-rix"
name: "Martyn Rix"
slug: "martyn-rix"
description: "Edward Martyn Rix is a British botanist, collector, horticulturist and author. Following completion of a PhD on Fritillaria at Cambridge University, he worked in Zürich, Switzerland and at the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley. He is the author of many books and articles on plants and horticulture and is the editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London."
tagline: "British botanist and horticulturist (born 1943)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.21
  momentum:             9.67741935483871
  historical:           5.671850666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Martyn Rix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Rix"
    title: "Martyn Rix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Martyn_Rix"
    title: "Edward Martyn Rix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Rix"
    title: "Martyn Rix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Rix"
    title: "Martyn Rix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Рикс, Мартин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8772481"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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