# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bull
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:20:24.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bull"
name: "William Bull"
slug: "william-bull"
description: "William Bull (1828–1902) was an English botanist, nurseryman and plant collector. He was born in Winchester and in 1861 purchased the nursery of John Weeks and Company in King's Road, Chelsea. He introduced into cultivation many plants from other countries, including orchids from Colombia and Liberia. John Carder and Edward Shuttleworth collected plants for William Bull."
tagline: "British plant hunter, nursery owner and botanist (1828–1902)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamBullBotanistJPG.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1828"
deathDate: "1902-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.335529333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bull"
    title: "William Bull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bull_(Botaniker)"
    title: "William Bull (Botaniker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bull_(botanist)"
    title: "William Bull (botanist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bull"
    title: "William Bull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bull"
    title: "William Bull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%91%D1%83%D0%BB_(%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80)"
    title: "Вилијам Бул (ботаничар)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_(%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Бол, Уильям (ботаник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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