# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-spruce
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:08:35.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-spruce"
name: "Richard Spruce"
slug: "richard-spruce"
description: "Richard Spruce was an English botanist specializing in bryology. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of the very first Europeans to observe many of the places where he collected specimens. Spruce discovered and named a number of new plant species, and corresponded with some of the leading botanists of the nineteenth century."
tagline: "British botanist and explorer (1817–1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Spruce_Richard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1817-09-10"
deathDate: "1893-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.948275862068965
  historical:           15.48657466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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