# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denton-cooley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:16:01.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denton-cooley"
name: "Denton Cooley"
slug: "denton-cooley"
description: "Denton Arthur Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston."
tagline: "American heart surgeon (1920–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M.D._Denton_Cooley_with_a_medical_student_in_March_2015_.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-08-22"
deathDate: "2016-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             25
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump