# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kearsley-mitchell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:35:16.610Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kearsley-mitchell"
name: "John Kearsley Mitchell"
slug: "john-kearsley-mitchell"
description: "John Kearsley Mitchell was an American medical doctor and writer, born in Shepherdstown, Virginia. Orphaned at the age of eight, and sent to his late father's family in Scotland at the age of thirteen, Kearsley was educated at Ayr Academy and the University of Edinburgh."
tagline: "American writer and physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Kearsley_Mitchell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1798-05-12"
deathDate: "1858-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.538337333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kearsley_Mitchell"
    title: "John Kearsley Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kearsley_Mitchell"
    title: "John Kearsley Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kearsley_Mitchell"
    title: "John Kearsley Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kearsley_Mitchell"
    title: "John Kearsley Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kearsley_Mitchell"
    title: "John Kearsley Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kearsley_Mitchell"
    title: "John Kearsley Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kearsley_Mitchell"
    title: "John Kearsley Mitchell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6242585"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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