# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ellis-debakey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:58.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ellis-debakey"
name: "Michael Ellis DeBakey"
slug: "michael-ellis-debakey"
description: "Michael Ellis DeBakey was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades."
tagline: "American cardiac surgeon (1908–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_DeBakey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1908-09-07"
deathDate: "2008-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump