# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amato-lusitano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:15.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amato-lusitano"
name: "Amato Lusitano"
slug: "amato-lusitano"
description: "João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, better known as Amato Lusitano and Amatus Lusitanus (1511–1568), was a notable Portuguese Jewish physician of the 16th century. Like Herophilus, Galen, Ibn al-Nafis, Michael Servetus, Realdo Colombo and William Harvey, he is credited as making a discovery in the circulation of the blood. He is said to have discovered the function of the valves in the circulation of the blood."
tagline: "Portuguese physician (1511-1568)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nt-amato-lusitano.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1511"
deathDate: "1568-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             10.03578947368421
  historical:           12.48362266666667
  currentAttention:     3.04
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 201
sources:
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    title: "Амату Лузітану"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "اماتو لوسيتانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Lusitano"
    title: "Amato Lusitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82_%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82"
    title: "Αμάτους Λουζιτάνους"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatus_Lusitanus"
    title: "Amatus Lusitanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Lusitano"
    title: "Amato Lusitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Lusitano"
    title: "Amato Lusitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatus_Lusitanus"
    title: "Amatus Lusitanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatus_Lusitanus"
    title: "Amatus Lusitanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%96%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "אמטוס לוזיטנוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Lusitano"
    title: "Amato Lusitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatus_Lusitanus"
    title: "Amatus Lusitanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Lusitano"
    title: "Amato Lusitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Lusitano"
    title: "Amato Lusitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Лузитано, Амато"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455777"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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