# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cayetano-heredia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:03:26.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cayetano-heredia"
name: "Cayetano Heredia"
slug: "cayetano-heredia"
description: "Cayetano Heredia was a Peruvian medical doctor, born in Catacaos, Piura, northwestern Peru. He studied medicine at the Royal College of Medicine and Surgery of the National University of San Marcos. Together with Hipólito Unanue, he was one of the two greatest Peruvian physicians of the 19th century. He happened to live through the tense period of the struggle for independence of Peru from Spain, and his participation in political life was as intense as the time and effort he devoted to medicine. He was the first dean of the Faculty of Medicine San Fernando. He died in Lima on 1861."
tagline: "Peruvian physician (1797-1861)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CHeredia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1797-08-04"
deathDate: "1861-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.26
  momentum:             3.478260869565216
  historical:           6.148633333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Cayetano Heredia"
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    title: "كايتانو هيريديا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كايتانو هيريديا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayetano_Heredia"
    title: "Cayetano Heredia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Cayetano_Heredia"
    title: "José Cayetano Heredia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayetano_Heredia"
    title: "Cayetano Heredia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayetano_Heredia"
    title: "Cayetano Heredia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump