# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-esdaile
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:16:49.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-esdaile"
name: "James Esdaile"
slug: "james-esdaile"
description: "James Esdaile, M.D., E.I.C.S., Bengal (1808–1859), an Edinburgh trained Scottish surgeon, who served for twenty years with the East India Company, is a notable figure in the history of \"animal magnetism\" and, in particular, in the history of general anaesthesia."
tagline: "British hypnotist (1808-1859)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1808-02-06"
deathDate: "1859-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.97
  momentum:             0.01408450704225352
  historical:           6.358929333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Esdaile"
    title: "James Esdaile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جيمس اسدايلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Esdaile"
    title: "James Esdaile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Esdaile"
    title: "James Esdaile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Esdaile"
    title: "James Esdaile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Esdaile"
    title: "James Esdaile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Esdaile"
    title: "James Esdaile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2744810"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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