# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/myrtelle-canavan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:32:18.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/myrtelle-canavan"
name: "Myrtelle Canavan"
slug: "myrtelle-canavan"
description: "Myrtelle May Moore Canavan was an American physician and medical researcher. She was one of the first female pathologists and is best known for publishing a description of Canavan disease in 1931."
tagline: "American physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Myrtelle_M._Canavan_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-06-24"
deathDate: "1953-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Myrtelle Canavan"
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    title: "Myrtelle Canavan"
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    title: "Myrtelle Canavan"
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    title: "Myrtelle Canavan"
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    title: "Myrtelle Canavan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump