# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-heysham-gibbon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:34:19.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-heysham-gibbon"
name: "John Heysham Gibbon"
slug: "john-heysham-gibbon"
description: "John Heysham Gibbon was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart–lung machine and performing subsequent open-heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surgery in the twentieth century. He was the son of Dr. John Heysham Gibbon Sr., and Marjorie Young Gibbon, and came from a long line of medical doctors including his father, grandfather Robert, great-grandfather John and great-great grandfather."
tagline: "American surgeon (1903–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_H._Gibbon_Jr..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: "1903-09-29"
deathDate: "1973-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.51
  momentum:             9.116022099447513
  historical:           12.89838266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump