# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-griffith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:00:07.952Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-griffith"
name: "William Griffith"
slug: "william-griffith"
description: "William Griffith was a British medical doctor, naturalist, and botanist. \nGriffith's botanical publications are from India and Burma. After a brief stay in Madras, he was assigned as a Civil Surgeon to Tenasserim, Burma, where he studied local plants and made collecting trips to the Barak River valley in Assam. He explored various parts of Burma, traveling the rivers, including the Irrawadi as far as Rangoon. He visited the highlands of Sikkim, and the region of the Himalayas around Shimla. Subsequently, Griffith was appointed as Civil Surgeon in Malacca, where he died of a parasitic liver disease."
tagline: "British doctor and naturalist in South Asia (1810-1845)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Makers_of_British_botany%2C_Plate_15_(William_Griffith).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1810-03-04"
deathDate: "1845-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.211592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "威廉·格里菲斯 (植物学家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AB"
    title: "وليام غرفث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليام جرفث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith_(bot%C3%A0nic)"
    title: "William Griffith (botànic)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith_(Botaniker)"
    title: "William Griffith (Botaniker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith_(botanist)"
    title: "William Griffith (botanist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith_(bot%C3%A1nico)"
    title: "William Griffith (botánico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith"
    title: "William Griffith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith"
    title: "William Griffith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith"
    title: "William Griffith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Гриффит, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith"
    title: "William Griffith"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith"
    title: "William Griffith"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%96%D1%84%D1%84%D1%96%D1%82"
    title: "Вільям Гріффіт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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