# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-mendum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:34:07.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-mendum"
name: "Mary Mendum"
slug: "mary-mendum"
description: "Mary Mendum (1945-2004), born Caroline Mary Bates, was a British botanist, taxonomist and botanical illustrator. A number of plant species were described and named by her, as well as others named in memory of her. The Mary Mendum Medal is awarded in her honour for an exceptional outstanding botanical illustration."
tagline: "English botanist, botanical and scientific illustrator (1945-2004)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945"
deathDate: "2004-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.46
  momentum:             2.857142857142857
  historical:           7.267962666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mendum"
    title: "Mary Mendum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mendum"
    title: "Mary Mendum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mendum_(botanist)"
    title: "Mary Mendum (botanist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mendum"
    title: "Mary Mendum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mendum"
    title: "Mary Mendum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mendum_(botaniste)"
    title: "Mary Mendum (botaniste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mendum_(onye_na-ah%E1%BB%A5_maka_ihe_%E1%BB%8Dk%E1%BB%A5k%E1%BB%A5)"
    title: "Mary Mendum (onye na-ahụ maka ihe ọkụkụ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BC"
    title: "Мери Мендум"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mendum"
    title: "Mary Mendum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19599971"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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