# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-harris-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:10:18.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-harris-thompson"
name: "Mary Harris Thompson"
slug: "mary-harris-thompson"
description: "Mary Harris Thompson, MD, was the founder, head physician and surgeon of the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, renamed Mary Harris Thompson Hospital after her death in 1895. She was one of the first women to practice medicine in Chicago where she contributed to the health of civil war veterans families. Over the course of her life she made numerous contributions to science and education that have made a lasting impact."
tagline: "American surgeon (1829–1895)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Harris_Thompson%2C_with_signature_(1896).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1829-04-15"
deathDate: "1895-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.27
  momentum:             8.823529411764707
  historical:           5.669654666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Mary Harris Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماري هاريس تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Thompson"
    title: "Mary Harris Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "മേരി ഹാരിസ് തോംസൺ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Thompson"
    title: "Mary Harris Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مری هریس تامپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6779725"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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