# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gardner-quincy-colton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:46:27.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gardner-quincy-colton"
name: "Gardner Quincy Colton"
slug: "gardner-quincy-colton"
description: "Gardner Quincy Colton was an American showman, medicine man, lecturer, and former medical student who pioneered the use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, in dentistry."
tagline: "American showman 1814-1898"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colton_Gardner_Q.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1814-02-17"
deathDate: "1898-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.36
  momentum:             16.05769230769231
  historical:           5.470806666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gardner Quincy Colton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "غاردنر كوينسي كولتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاردنر كوينسى كولتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Quincy_Colton"
    title: "Gardner Quincy Colton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Quincy_Colton"
    title: "Gardner Quincy Colton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Quincy_Colton"
    title: "Gardner Quincy Colton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3758287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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