# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-balfour
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:46.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-balfour"
name: "Andrew Balfour"
slug: "andrew-balfour"
description: "Sir Andrew Balfour was a Scottish Medical Officer who specialised in tropical medicine. Balfour spent twelve years in Khartoum, Sudan and was the Medical Officer of Health in the city. As well as writing medical publications, Balfour also wrote historical fiction and fantasy novels, the majority of which were published from 1897 to 1903. In his youth Balfour was also a notable sportsman playing rugby union for Cambridge University in the Varsity Match and was selected to represent the Scotland national team."
tagline: "Scottish Medical Officer, specialist in tropical medicine, rugby union player (1873–1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Andrew_Balfour_1913.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1873-03-21"
deathDate: "1931-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.937977333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "أندرو بيلفور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "اندرو بيلفور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Balfour"
    title: "Andrew Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Balfour"
    title: "Andrew Balfour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4756269"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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