# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-ellen-berkeley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:05:50.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-ellen-berkeley"
name: "Ruth Ellen Berkeley"
slug: "ruth-ellen-berkeley"
description: "Ruth Ellen Berkeley was an English mycologist, collector of fungi specimens and scientific botanical illustrator. She is known for her specimen collections as well as her illustrations of British fungi particularly in Mordecai Cubitt Cooke's book Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes). Her father, the mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley, named a fungal species Agaricus ruthae in her honour."
tagline: "Mycologist and scientific illustrator (1846-1914)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1845-07-02"
deathDate: "1914-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           27.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.2009
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  41
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "روث الين بيركيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellen_Berkeley"
    title: "Ruth Ellen Berkeley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43301327"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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