# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cesare-lombroso
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:42:42.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cesare-lombroso"
name: "Cesare Lombroso"
slug: "cesare-lombroso"
description: "He thought you could spot a criminal by the shape of their skull. Cesare Lombroso built a science out of measuring faces and bodies to prove that lawbreakers were evolutionary throwbacks—born defective, marked from birth."
tagline: "Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cesare_Lombroso._Photogravure._Wellcome_V0026740_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1835-11-06"
deathDate: "1909-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.1
  momentum:             21.13
  historical:           24.744136
  currentAttention:     12.53571428571429
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 60
tags:
  - name: "Doctors"
    slug: "doctors"
  - name: "Doctor"
    slug: "doctor"
  - name: "Medicine"
    slug: "medicine"
  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202420"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Cesare%20Lombroso"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88"
    title: "چزاره لومبروزو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87ezare_Lombrozo"
    title: "Çezare Lombrozo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%8D%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8D_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0"
    title: "Чэзарэ Ламброза"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BE"
    title: "Чезаре Ломброзо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B6%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B5_%CE%9B%CE%BF%CE%BC%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%B6%CE%BF"
    title: "Τσέζαρε Λομπρόζο"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88"
    title: "چزاره لومبروزو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%96%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%96%D7%95"
    title: "צ'זארה לומברוזו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8B"
    title: "शेजारे लोम्ब्रोजो"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Cesare Lombroso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BE"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://tr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88"
    title: "تشيزري لومبروزو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Ezechia Marco Lombroso on 6 November 1835, he trained as a physician in Italy and turned his attention to the question of why people commit crimes. The classical school said crime was a choice inherent to human nature; Lombroso rejected that outright. Drawing from physiognomy, degeneration theory, psychiatry, and Social Darwinism, he argued that criminality was inherited—that a "born criminal" could be identified by physical defects marking them as savage or atavistic. His theory of anthropological criminology made him the founder of the Italian school and reshaped Western notions of individual responsibility. He died 19 October 1909, credited as the founder of modern criminology.