# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-ball
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:39:50.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-ball"
name: "Benjamin Ball"
slug: "benjamin-ball"
description: "Benjamin Ball was a French psychiatrist who was born in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He was the first \"Chair of Mental and Brain Diseases\" at the Paris Faculty of Medicine."
tagline: "French neurologist (1833-1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_Ball.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1833-04-20"
deathDate: "1893-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.07
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           5.005148
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ball_(physician)"
    title: "Benjamin Ball (physician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ball"
    title: "Benjamin Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ball"
    title: "Benjamin Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ball"
    title: "Benjamin Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Болл, Бенджамин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2895993"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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