# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vernon-heywood
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:36:04.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vernon-heywood"
name: "Vernon Heywood"
slug: "vernon-heywood"
description: "Vernon Hilton Heywood was a British plant biologist. He specialised in medicinal and aromatic plants, and the conservation of wild relatives of plants. He led modern plant taxonomy and global strategies for plant conservation as well as the training of generations of botanists, taxonomists, and conservationists in the UK and other countries."
tagline: "British botanist (1927-2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vernon_Heywood_2006_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-12-24"
deathDate: "2022-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.37
  momentum:             7.804878048780488
  historical:           7.007884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Vernon Hilton Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "فيرنون هيوود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vernon Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Heywood"
    title: "Vernon Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Hilton_Heywood"
    title: "Vernon Hilton Heywood"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Heywood"
    title: "Vernon Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Heywood"
    title: "Vernon Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Heywood"
    title: "Vernon Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444382"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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