# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-shaw-billings
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:28:44.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-shaw-billings"
name: "John Shaw Billings"
slug: "john-shaw-billings"
description: "John Shaw Billings was an American librarian, building designer, and surgeon who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army. His work with Andrew Carnegie led to the development and his service as the first director of the New York Public Library. Billings oversaw the building of the Surgeon General's Library, which was the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine."
tagline: "American surgeon, statistician, United States Army officer, designer of New York Public library (1838–1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Shaw_Billings_001.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: "1838-04-12"
deathDate: "1913-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.53
  momentum:             1.620253164556962
  historical:           8.083190666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Shaw Billings"
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    title: "جون شو بيلينغز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shaw_Billings"
    title: "John Shaw Billings"
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    title: "John Shaw Billings"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shaw_Billings"
    title: "John Shaw Billings"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shaw_Billings"
    title: "John Shaw Billings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "جان شاو بیلینگز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shaw_Billings"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジョン・ショウ・ビリングス"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump