# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-jeffries
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:02:12.770Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-jeffries"
name: "John Jeffries"
slug: "john-jeffries"
description: "John Jeffries was an American medical doctor, scientist, and military surgeon with the British Army in Nova Scotia and New York during the American Revolution. He is best known for accompanying French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard on his 1785 balloon flight across the English Channel."
tagline: "Boston physician, scientist, and military surgeon"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wonderful_Balloon_Ascents%2C_1870_-_Dr._Jeffries.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1744-02-05"
deathDate: "1819-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.814076
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  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