# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-douglas-cunningham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:51:10.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-douglas-cunningham"
name: "David Douglas Cunningham"
slug: "david-douglas-cunningham"
description: "David Douglas Cunningham was a Scottish medical doctor and researcher who worked extensively in India on various aspects of public health and medicine. He studied the spread of bacteria and the spores of fungi through the air and conducted research on cholera. In his spare time he also studied the local plants and animals."
tagline: "British doctor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Douglas_Cunningham_FRS_(1843-1914)_carte_de_visite_Royal_Society.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1843-09-29"
deathDate: "1914-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.08
  momentum:             7.692307692307693
  historical:           4.803312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Douglas Cunningham"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Douglas_Cunningham"
    title: "David Douglas Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Douglas_Cunningham"
    title: "David Douglas Cunningham"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%A0"
    title: "デーヴィッド・ダグラス・カニンガム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Douglas_Cunningham"
    title: "David Douglas Cunningham"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017793"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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