# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-benson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:37.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-benson"
name: "Herbert Benson"
slug: "herbert-benson"
description: "Herbert Benson was an American medical doctor, cardiologist, and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He was a professor of mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School and director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) at MGH. He was a founding trustee of The American Institute of Stress. He contributed more than 190 scientific publications and 12 books. More than five million copies of his books have been printed in different languages."
tagline: "American medical academic (1935–2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-04-24"
deathDate: "2022-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.68
  momentum:             1.298701298701299
  historical:           7.902486666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3424014/"
    handle:    "nm3424014"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "هربرت بنسون"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Benson"
    title: "Herbert Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Benson"
    title: "Herbert Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Benson"
    title: "Herbert Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Benson"
    title: "Herbert Benson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
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    title: "Herbert Benson"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump