# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/velva-elaine-rudd
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:05:31.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/velva-elaine-rudd"
name: "Velva Elaine Rudd"
slug: "velva-elaine-rudd"
description: "Velva Elaine Rudd was an American botanist, specializing in tropical legumes. She worked as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and also conducted research at the herbarium at California State University, Northridge."
tagline: "American botanist and legume curator (1910–1999)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910"
deathDate: "1999-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.48
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           5.268106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velva_Elaine_Rudd"
    title: "Velva Elaine Rudd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velva_Elaine_Rudd"
    title: "Velva Elaine Rudd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velva_E._Rudd"
    title: "Velva E. Rudd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velva_Elaine_Rudd"
    title: "Velva Elaine Rudd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velva_Elaine_Rudd"
    title: "Velva Elaine Rudd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velva_Elaine_Rudd"
    title: "Velva Elaine Rudd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6160123"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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