# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-ridley
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:40:00.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-ridley"
name: "Harold Ridley"
slug: "harold-ridley"
description: "Sir Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley was an English ophthalmologist who invented the intraocular lens and pioneered intraocular lens surgery for cataract patients."
tagline: "British ophthalmologist (1906-2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1906-07-10"
deathDate: "2001-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.03
  momentum:             6.852598159214086
  historical:           7.893378666666666
  currentAttention:     32.37410071942446
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Harold Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارولد ريدلي (طبيب عيون)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارولد ريدلى (طبيب عيون من المملكه المتحده لبريطانيا العظمى و ايرلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C_(%D8%B7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A8)"
    title: "هارولد ریدلی (طبیب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ridley"
    title: "Harold Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ridley_(ophthalmologist)"
    title: "Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ridley_(oftalm%C3%B3logo)"
    title: "Harold Ridley (oftalmólogo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ridley"
    title: "Harold Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ridley"
    title: "Harold Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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