# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-oliver-cauldwell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:11:47.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-oliver-cauldwell"
name: "David Oliver Cauldwell"
slug: "david-oliver-cauldwell"
description: "David Oliver Cauldwell was a prolific and pioneering sexologist, who coined the term transsexual as used in its current definition. Many of his monographs on sex, psychology, or health were published by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius in such forms as Big Blue Books. He was the editor of Sexology magazine's question and answer department. Cauldwell and Harry Benjamin were \"two early and important American voices on transsexuality\"."
tagline: "American sexologist (1897–1959)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1897-06-17"
deathDate: "1959-08-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.473074666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Oliver Cauldwell"
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    title: "ডেভিড অলিভার কল্ডওয়েল"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Cauldwell"
    title: "David O. Cauldwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oliver_Cauldwell"
    title: "David Oliver Cauldwell"
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    title: "David Oliver Cauldwell"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oliver_Cauldwell"
    title: "David Oliver Cauldwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1175939"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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