# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-woodruff
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:30.952Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-woodruff"
name: "Michael Woodruff"
slug: "michael-woodruff"
description: "Sir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff, was an English surgeon and scientist principally remembered for his research into organ transplantation. Though born in London, Woodruff spent his youth in Australia, where he earned degrees in electrical engineering and medicine. Having completed his studies shortly after the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps, but was soon captured by Japanese forces and imprisoned in the Changi Prison Camp. While there, he devised an ingenious method of extracting nutrients from agricultural wastes to prevent malnutrition among his fellow POWs."
tagline: "English surgeon and biologist; transplantation and cancer researcher (1911-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Sir_michael_woodruff.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-04-03"
deathDate: "2001-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.754901960784314
  historical:           12.210188
  currentAttention:     4.901960784313726
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Майкл Вудрафф"
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    title: "مايكل وودرف"
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    title: "Майкъл Удръф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Woodruff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woodruff"
    title: "Michael Woodruff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woodruff"
    title: "Michael Woodruff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woodruff"
    title: "Michael Woodruff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מייקל וודרוף"
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    title: "Michael Woodruff"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woodruff"
    title: "Michael Woodruff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woodruff"
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    title: "Вудрафф, Майкл"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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