# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheila-spenser-hooper
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:30.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheila-spenser-hooper"
name: "Sheila Spenser Hooper"
slug: "sheila-spenser-hooper"
description: "Sheila Spenser Hooper was a British botanist and plant collector noted for traveling to gather plants from around the world, including India, Tanzania, and Kenya. She was a specialist on Cyperaceae and a curator at Kew Gardens. She described over fifty species. The standard author abbreviation S. S. Hooper is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. She often published with Kew Bulletin. One of these publications was an illustrated description and discussion of spikelets in Cyperaceae. She collected plant specimens on expeditions with Kanchi Gandhi, Leonard B Mwasumbi, and Clifford Charles Townsend."
tagline: "Botanist (b. 1925)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925"
deathDate: "2022"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.739130434782609
  historical:           5.934305333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "شیلا اسپینسر ہوپر"
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    title: "Sheila Spenser Hooper"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Spenser_Hooper"
    title: "Sheila Spenser Hooper"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Spenser_Hooper"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Spenser_Hooper"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump