# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-lister
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:35:46.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-lister"
name: "Joseph Lister"
slug: "joseph-lister"
description: "He made surgery survivable. Before Lister drenched everything in carbolic acid — instruments, skin, hands, wards — half of all patients who made it off the table died anyway from infections no one understood. He connected the dots between Pasteur's germs and rotting wounds, and operating theaters stopped being death traps."
tagline: "British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Lister%2C_1st_Baron_Lister_(1827_%E2%80%93_1912)_surgeon_Wellcome_M0002551.jpg"
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: "1827-04-05"
deathDate: "1912-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           61.27
  momentum:             1.740989615149664
  historical:           24.54558
  currentAttention:     17.53924862553452
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 54
tags:
  - name: "Doctors"
    slug: "doctors"
  - name: "Doctor"
    slug: "doctor"
  - name: "Medicine"
    slug: "medicine"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155768"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Joseph%20Lister"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزف ليستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزف لیستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozef_Lister"
    title: "Cozef Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Джозеф Листер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9B%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80"
    title: "Джозеф Лістэр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80"
    title: "Джоузеф Листър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AB_%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "জোসেফ লিস্টার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister%2C_Barwn_1af_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister, Barwn 1af Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister%2C_1._baron_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister, 1. baron Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister%2C_1._Baron_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister, 1. Baron Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%86_%CE%9B%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81"
    title: "Τζόζεφ Λίστερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزف لیستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister"
    title: "Joseph Lister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزف ليستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Joseph Lister was born 5 April 1827 in England and trained as a surgeon, though by hand he was never exceptional. What changed everything was his willingness to see what others ignored: that something invisible was killing patients after the knife came out. Working at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, he began sterilising with carbolic acid in the 1860s, applying Pasteur's germ theory to the problem of putrefaction in surgical wounds. He studied inflammation, tissue perfusion, wound healing under microscopes — building the scaffolding of antiseptic principle piece by piece. Post-operative infections plummeted. Surgery became a craft you could survive. He died 10 February 1912, by then a baron and the man who'd turned operating rooms from gambles into medicine.