# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-zephaniah-holwell
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:21.935Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-zephaniah-holwell"
name: "John Zephaniah Holwell"
slug: "john-zephaniah-holwell"
description: "John Zephaniah Holwell was a surgeon, an employee of the British East India Company, and a temporary Governor of Bengal (1760). He was also one of the first Europeans to study Indian antiquities and was an early advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism."
tagline: "English surgeon and temporary Governor of Bengal (1711-1798)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Zephaniah_Holwell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1711-09-17"
deathDate: "1798-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.424012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "জন জেফানিয়াহ হলওয়েল"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zephaniah_Holwell"
    title: "John Zephaniah Holwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zephaniah_Holwell"
    title: "John Zephaniah Holwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zephaniah_Holwell"
    title: "John Zephaniah Holwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Zephaniah_Holwell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6265313"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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