# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lobb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:20:50.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lobb"
name: "William Lobb"
slug: "william-lobb"
description: "William Lobb was a British plant collector, employed by Veitch Nurseries of Exeter, who was responsible for introducing to commercial growers Britain Araucaria araucana from Chile and the massive Sequoiadendron giganteum (Wellingtonia) from North America."
tagline: "Cornish plant collector (1809-1864)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Araucaria_araucana1.jpg/330px-Araucaria_araucana1.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1809"
deathDate: "1864-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.19
  momentum:             7.164983469951543
  historical:           5.479734666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Lobb"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lobb"
    title: "William Lobb"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lobb"
    title: "William Lobb"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lobb"
    title: "William Lobb"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lobb"
    title: "William Lobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lobb"
    title: "William Lobb"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2579760"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump