# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-john-kress
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:20.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-john-kress"
name: "W. John Kress"
slug: "w-john-kress"
description: "Walter John Emil Kress is an American botanist and the vice-president for science at the National Museum of Natural History. He currently holds the appointment (2010) as the Director of the Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet at the Smithsonian Institution and is the former Executive Director of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation."
tagline: "American botanist and curator"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268790666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._John_Kress"
    title: "W. John Kress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "دبليو. جون كريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "دبليو. جون كريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._John_Kress"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_John_Emil_Kress"
    title: "Walter John Emil Kress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_John_Emil_Kress"
    title: "Walter John Emil Kress"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6166224"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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