# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-wyngaarden
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:19:24.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-wyngaarden"
name: "James Wyngaarden"
slug: "james-wyngaarden"
description: "James Barnes Wyngaarden was an American physician, researcher and academic administrator. He was a co-editor of Cecil Textbook of Medicine, one of the leading internal medicine texts, and served as director of National Institutes of Health between 1982 and 1989."
tagline: "Director of the National Institutes of Health (1924–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Wyngaarden.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1924-10-19"
deathDate: "2019-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.603276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wyngaarden"
    title: "James Wyngaarden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس وينجاردين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wyngaarden"
    title: "James Wyngaarden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wyngaarden"
    title: "James Wyngaarden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%B9%E5%A7%86%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%B8%A9%E5%AE%B6%E7%99%BB"
    title: "詹姆斯·温家登"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6145879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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