# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eleanor-josephine-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:25:02.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eleanor-josephine-macdonald"
name: "Eleanor Josephine Macdonald"
slug: "eleanor-josephine-macdonald"
description: "Eleanor Josephine Macdonald was a pioneer American cancer epidemiologist and cancer researcher influenced and mentored by Edwin Bidwell Wilson and Shields Warren. One of the earliest proponents of the idea that cancer was a preventable disease. She established the first cancer registry in the United States in Connecticut."
tagline: "American university teacher and epidemiologist (1906-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MacDonald-Eleanor-G551-1a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1906-03-04"
deathDate: "2007-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669294666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Eleanor Josephine Macdonald"
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    title: "إليانور جوزفين ماكدونالد"
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    title: "Eleanor Josephine Macdonald"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Josephine_Macdonald"
    title: "Eleanor Josephine Macdonald"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Josephine_Macdonald"
    title: "Eleanor Josephine Macdonald"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Josephine_Macdonald"
    title: "Eleanor Josephine Macdonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump