# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-appia
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:44:22.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-appia"
name: "Louis Appia"
slug: "louis-appia"
description: "Louis Paul Amédée Appia was a Swiss surgeon with special merit in the area of military medicine. In 1863 he became a member of the Geneva \"Committee of Five\", which was the precursor to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Six years later he met Clara Barton, an encounter which had significant influence on Clara Barton's subsequent endeavours to found a Red Cross society in the United States and her campaign for an accession of the US to the Geneva Convention of 1864."
tagline: "Swiss-German surgeon, expert in military medicine, co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (1818–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_Appia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1818-10-13"
deathDate: "1898-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.71
  momentum:             0.4954128440366973
  historical:           8.553925333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Appia"
    title: "Louis Appia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "لويس ابيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Appia"
    title: "Louis Appia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%B9_%CE%91%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%B1"
    title: "Λούι Απία"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Appia"
    title: "Louis Appia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Appia"
    title: "Louis Appia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Appia"
    title: "Louis Appia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Appia"
    title: "Louis Appia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AB_%D4%B1%D5%BA%D5%AB%D5%A1"
    title: "Լուի Ապիա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Appia"
    title: "Louis Appia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116822"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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