# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-curtis-hepburn
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:04:55.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-curtis-hepburn"
name: "James Curtis Hepburn"
slug: "james-curtis-hepburn"
description: "James Curtis Hepburn was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese–English dictionary."
tagline: "American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Curtis_Hepburn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1815-03-13"
deathDate: "1911-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.12
  momentum:             0.6604572396274344
  historical:           20.92168533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "제임스 커티스 헵번"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump