# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-benzaquen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:15:41.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-benzaquen"
name: "Leon Benzaquen"
slug: "leon-benzaquen"
description: "Leon Benzaquen was a Moroccan doctor who became the personal doctor for King Mohammed V of Morocco, and the first Moroccan Jewish minister after Morocco gained independence in 1956, in its first independent government. He was first appointed as telegraph and communications minister and later minister of health, a post Benzaquen kept until 1958."
tagline: "Moroccan politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Leon_Benzaquen.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-12-31"
deathDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.674622666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Benzaquen"
    title: "Leon Benzaquen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليون بن زاكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليون بن زاكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Benzaquen"
    title: "Leon Benzaquen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Benzaquen"
    title: "Léon Benzaquen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%96%D7%A7%D7%9F"
    title: "לאון בן זקן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6524517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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