# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-siemionow
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:42:10.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-siemionow"
name: "Maria Siemionow"
slug: "maria-siemionow"
description: "Maria Zofia Siemionow is a Polish transplant surgeon and scientist. She is known for leading a team of eight surgeons through the first near-total face transplant performed in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008. The patient, Connie Culp, a 45-year-old woman from a small town in Ohio, was exceedingly disfigured by a close range shotgun blast in 2004. The procedure took 22 hours."
tagline: "Polish-American surgeon"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.89
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.350721333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 221
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Марія Семьонов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ماريا سيميونوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Siemionow"
    title: "Maria Siemionow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%A3%CE%B9%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B9%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%86"
    title: "Μαρία Σιεμιόνοφ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Siemionow"
    title: "Maria Siemionow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ماریا شیمیونوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Siemionow"
    title: "Maria Siemionow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q525301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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