# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-jameson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:39:23.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-jameson"
name: "William Jameson"
slug: "william-jameson"
description: "William (\"Gulielmo\") Jameson (1796–1873) was a Scottish-Ecuadorian botanist. He was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He made several voyages as a ship's surgeon, first to Baffin Bay, then to South America. In 1826 he settled in Quito, Ecuador. He was then appointed professor of chemistry and botany at Universidad Central del Ecuador. He went back to Edinburgh in 1869, returned to Quito in 1872, and died shortly thereafter."
tagline: "Scottish-Ecuadorian botanist (1796-1873)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Jameson%2C_por_Antonio_Salas_(1842).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1796-10-03"
deathDate: "1873-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.603744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام چيمسون (دبلوماسى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jameson_(botanist%2C_born_1796)"
    title: "William Jameson (botanist, born 1796)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jameson"
    title: "William Jameson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jameson"
    title: "William Jameson"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jameson"
    title: "William Jameson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8013504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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