# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-schepens
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:06:29.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-schepens"
name: "Charles Schepens"
slug: "charles-schepens"
description: "Charles Louis Schepens was a Belgian and American ophthalmologist, regarded by many in the profession as \"the father of modern retinal surgery\", and member of the French Resistance."
tagline: "American ophthalmologist (1912–2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Human_eye_cross-sectional_view_grayscale.png/330px-Human_eye_cross-sectional_view_grayscale.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1912-03-13"
deathDate: "2006-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6818181818181819
  historical:           8.143125333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schepens"
    title: "Charles Schepens"
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    title: "Charles Schepens"
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    title: "Charles Schepens"
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    title: "Չառլզ Շեպենս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Charles Schepens"
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    title: "Charles Schepens"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump