# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-purdy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:25:34.984Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-purdy"
name: "Jean Purdy"
slug: "jean-purdy"
description: "Jean Marian Purdy was a British nurse, embryologist and pioneer of fertility treatment. She was responsible with Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe for developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF); Louise Joy Brown, the first \"test-tube baby\", was born on 25 July 1978, and Purdy was the first to see the embryonic cells dividing. Purdy was a co-founder of the Bourn Hall Clinic but her role there and in the development of IVF was ignored for 30 years. Following the publication of Edwards' papers in the 2010s, her vital contributions to IVF have been publicly recognised."
tagline: "UK IVF pioneer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Jean_Purdy_IVF_pioneer.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1945-04-25"
deathDate: "1985-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.688457333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جین پرڈی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%89"
    title: "جان بوردى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Purdy"
    title: "Jean Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Purdy"
    title: "Jean Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Purdy"
    title: "Jean Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Purdy"
    title: "Jean Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80"
    title: "जीन पुर्डी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Purdy"
    title: "Jean Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Purdy"
    title: "Jean Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Purdy"
    title: "Jean Purdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55751275"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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