# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-sebastian-helmcken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:16:28.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-sebastian-helmcken"
name: "John Sebastian Helmcken"
slug: "john-sebastian-helmcken"
description: "John Sebastian Helmcken was a British Columbia physician who played a prominent role in bringing the province into Canadian Confederation. He was also the founding president of the British Columbia Medical Association."
tagline: "Canadian politician and physician (1824-1920)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnSHelmcken.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1824-06-05"
deathDate: "1920-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.77
  momentum:             14.18399526953779
  historical:           4.812276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جون سيباستيان هيلمكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sebastian_Helmcken"
    title: "John Sebastian Helmcken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sebastian_Helmcken"
    title: "John Sebastian Helmcken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sebastian_Helmcken"
    title: "John Sebastian Helmcken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sebastian_Helmcken"
    title: "John Sebastian Helmcken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359757"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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