# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-waterhouse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:47.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-waterhouse"
name: "Benjamin Waterhouse"
slug: "benjamin-waterhouse"
description: "Benjamin Waterhouse was a medical doctor, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he carried out on his own family."
tagline: "American physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_Waterhouse.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1754-03-04"
deathDate: "1846-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.19
  momentum:             19.73988439306358
  historical:           4.81836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump