# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-gambel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:00:53.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-gambel"
name: "William Gambel"
slug: "william-gambel"
description: "William Gambel was an American naturalist, ornithologist, and botanist from Philadelphia. As a young man he worked closely with the renowned naturalist Thomas Nuttall. At the age of eighteen he traveled overland to California, becoming the first botanist to collect specimens in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and parts of California."
tagline: "American zoologist (1823-1849)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1823"
deathDate: "1849-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             2.778327560613557
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Gambel"
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    title: "William Gambel"
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    title: "William Gambel"
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    title: "William Gambel"
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    title: "William Gambel"
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    title: "Гэмбел, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gambel"
    title: "William Gambel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump