# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-currie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:28:31.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-currie"
name: "James Currie"
slug: "james-currie"
description: "James Currie FRS was a Scottish physician, best known for his anthology and biography of Robert Burns and his medical reports on the use of water in the treatment of fever. A watercolour portrait by Horace Hone (1756–1825) is in the National Galleries of Scotland."
tagline: "Scottish physician (1756–1805)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Currie_b1756.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1756-05-31"
deathDate: "1805-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.4
  momentum:             3.862068965517242
  historical:           5.273902666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Currie_(physician)"
    title: "James Currie (physician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "جيمس كورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Currie"
    title: "James Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99"
    title: "ג'יימס קארי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Currie"
    title: "James Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Currie"
    title: "James Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161002"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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