# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-benjamin-murphy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:16:39.838Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-benjamin-murphy"
name: "John Benjamin Murphy"
slug: "john-benjamin-murphy"
description: "John Benjamin Murphy, born John Murphy, was an American physician and abdominal surgeon noted for advocating early surgical intervention in appendicitis appendectomy, and several eponyms: Murphy’s button, Murphy drip, Murphy’s punch, Murphy’s test, and Murphy-Lane bone skid. He is best remembered for the eponymous clinical sign that is used in evaluating patients with acute cholecystitis. His career spanned general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and cardiothoracic surgery, which helped him to gain international prominence in the surgical profession. Mayo Clinic co-founder William James Mayo called him \"the surgical genius of our generation\"."
tagline: "American surgeon (1857–1916)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/19121018_John_B._Murphy_cropped.png?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: "1857-12-21"
deathDate: "1916-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.51
  momentum:             5.404984423676011
  historical:           8.745357333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Murphy (kirurg)"
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    title: "جان بنجامین مورفی"
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  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Benjamin_Murphy"
    title: "John Benjamin Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Benjamin_Murphy"
    title: "John Benjamin Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Benjamin_Murphy"
    title: "John Benjamin Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Benjamin_Murphy"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump