# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-javier-balmis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:57:09.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-javier-balmis"
name: "Francisco Javier Balmis"
slug: "francisco-javier-balmis"
description: "Francisco Javier de Balmis was a Spanish physician best known for leading an 1803 expedition to Spanish America, the Philippines and China to vaccinate populations against smallpox. His expedition was the first international vaccination campaign in history and one of the most important events in the history of medicine. It inspired recent vaccination efforts such as that of Carlos Canseco, president of Rotary International, to start the worldwide program PolioPlus to eradicate polio."
tagline: "Spanish physician and botanist (1753 – 1819)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco_J._Balmis_(49919701747).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1753-12-02"
deathDate: "1819-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.908606666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Xavier_de_Balmis_i_Berenguer"
    title: "Francisco Xavier de Balmis i Berenguer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانسيسكو خافيير دى بالميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesc_Xavier_Balmis_i_Berenguer"
    title: "Francesc Xavier Balmis i Berenguer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Javier_Balmis"
    title: "Francisco Javier Balmis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Javier_de_Balmis"
    title: "Francisco Javier de Balmis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Javier_de_Balmis"
    title: "Francisco Javier de Balmis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Javier_Balmis"
    title: "Francisco Javier Balmis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Javier_Balmis"
    title: "Francisco Javier Balmis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Javier_Balmis"
    title: "Francisco Javier Balmis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Xavier_Balmis"
    title: "Francisco Xavier Balmis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Javier_de_Balmis"
    title: "Francisco Javier de Balmis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%B4%D0%B5"
    title: "Бальмис, Франсиско Хавьер де"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3325644"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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