# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-roxburgh
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:25:00.171Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-roxburgh"
name: "William Roxburgh"
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description: "William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE FLS was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known as the founding father of Indian botany. He published numerous works on Indian botany, illustrated by careful drawings made by Indian artists and accompanied by taxonomic descriptions of many plant species. Apart from the numerous species that he named, many species were named in his honour by his collaborators. He was the first to document the existence of the Ganges river dolphin."
tagline: "British surgeon and botanist (1751–1815)"
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birthDate: "1751-06-29"
deathDate: "1815-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump