# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-hobson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:37:59.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-hobson"
name: "Benjamin Hobson"
slug: "benjamin-hobson"
description: "Benjamin Hobson (1816–1873) (Chinese：合信) was a British Protestant medical missionary who served with the London Missionary Society in imperial China during its Qing dynasty. His Treatise on Physiology, reproducing and elaborating on work by William Cheselden, helped revolutionize Chinese and later Japanese medical understanding and treatment."
tagline: "Missionary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_Hobson_in_Canton%2C_portrait_Wellcome_L0020337.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1816"
deathDate: "1873"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.811124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Hobson"
    title: "Benjamin Hobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Hobson"
    title: "Benjamin Hobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%96%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ベンジャミン・ホブソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A4%EC%9E%90%EB%AF%BC_%ED%99%89%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "벤자민 홉슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%88%E4%BF%A1"
    title: "合信"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4888825"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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