# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henrique-da-rocha-lima
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:16.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henrique-da-rocha-lima"
name: "Henrique da Rocha Lima"
slug: "henrique-da-rocha-lima"
description: "Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist born in Rio de Janeiro. With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus. Rocha Lima named the organism after Prowazek and American bacteriologist Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910)."
tagline: "Brazilian microbiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Instituto_Butantan_2016_110.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "BR"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-11-24"
deathDate: "1956-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.808532
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Henrique da Rocha Lima"
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    title: "Henrique da Rocha Lima"
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    title: "Роша Лима, Энрике"
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    title: "Енріке да Роше Ліма"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump