# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-hale-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:42.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-hale-williams"
name: "Daniel Hale Williams"
slug: "daniel-hale-williams"
description: "Daniel Hale Williams was a Black American surgeon and hospital founder. He founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. He is known for being the first to successfully perform a cardiac surgery—specifically, a procedure on the pericardium, the double-layered, fluid-filled sac that encloses the heart and the roots of the great vessels. The pericardium anchors the heart, protects it from infection and trauma, and reduces friction during its constant beating by providing lubrication."
tagline: "African American cardiologist who performed the first documented, successful pericardium surgery in the world"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fat_embolism_(6467719609).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1858-01-18"
deathDate: "1931-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.501993333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams"
    title: "Daniel Hale Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "دانيال وليم وليامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دانیل هیل ویلیامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams"
    title: "Daniel Hale Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams"
    title: "Daniel Hale Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams"
    title: "Daniel Hale Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams"
    title: "Daniel Hale Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3014147"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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