# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-adanson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:16:14.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-adanson"
name: "Michel Adanson"
slug: "michel-adanson"
description: "Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a \"natural system\" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. The standard author abbreviation Adans. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name."
tagline: "French naturalist (1727-1806)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michel_Adanson_(1727-1806).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1727-04-07"
deathDate: "1806-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump