# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-plumb-cochran
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:42:24.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-plumb-cochran"
name: "Joseph Plumb Cochran"
slug: "joseph-plumb-cochran"
description: "Joseph Plumb Cochran, M.D., was an American Presbyterian missionary and medical doctor. He is credited as the founding father of Iran's first modern Western medical school, Westminster College in 1879."
tagline: "American missionary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Plumb_Cochran.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1855-01-14"
deathDate: "1905-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.61
  momentum:             2.878787878787879
  historical:           5.01224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جوزيف كوشران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cochran"
    title: "Joseph Cochran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cochran"
    title: "Joseph Cochran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%DA%A9%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "جوزف کاکرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cochran"
    title: "Joseph Cochran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1706777"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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