# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-parkinson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:10:42.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-parkinson"
name: "James Parkinson"
slug: "james-parkinson"
description: "James Parkinson was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist. He is best known for his 1817 work An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, in which he was the first to describe \"paralysis agitans\", a condition that was later renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot."
tagline: "English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/James_Parkinson_signature_1809.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1755-04-11"
deathDate: "1824-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.92398933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 230
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump