# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-erskine-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:00:32.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-erskine-hill"
name: "Leonard Erskine Hill"
slug: "leonard-erskine-hill"
description: "Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS was a British physiologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and was knighted in 1930. One of his sons was the epidemiologist and statistician Austin Bradford Hill. His father was George Birkbeck Hill, the famous scholar and commentator on the works of Samuel Johnson, who at the time of his birth was headmaster of Bruce Castle School."
tagline: "British physiologist (1866-1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Sir_L.E._Hill%2C%2C_1866-1952_Wellcome_M0020244.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1866-06-02"
deathDate: "1952-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.47
  momentum:             9.22127659574468
  historical:           4.137401333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump