# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gilchrist
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:00:10.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gilchrist"
name: "John Gilchrist"
slug: "john-gilchrist"
description: "John Borthwick Gilchrist was a Scottish surgeon, linguist, philologist and Indologist. Born and educated in Edinburgh, he spent most of his early career in India, where he made a study of the local languages. In later life, he returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh and London. In his final years, he moved to Paris, where he died at the age of 81."
tagline: "Scottish indologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Borthwick_Gilchrist%2C_cropped_from_UCL_portrait_by_Blanconi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1759-06-19"
deathDate: "1841-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.446351931330472
  historical:           12.08754666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump