# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-harry-evans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:28:49.698Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-harry-evans"
name: "William Harry Evans"
slug: "william-harry-evans"
description: "Brigadier William Harry Evans was a lepidopterist and British Army officer who served in India. He documented the butterfly fauna of India, Burma and Ceylon in a series of articles in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Brigadier Evans was especially interested in the taxonomy and systematics of the butterfly families Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae an example being his A revision of the Arhopala group of Oriental Lycaenidae  Bull. British Mus. , Ent., vol. 5: pp. 85–141 (1957)."
tagline: "British entomologist (1876–1956)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1876-07-22"
deathDate: "1956-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.801728
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump