# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/obadiah-ben-jacob-sforno
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:24:25.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/obadiah-ben-jacob-sforno"
name: "Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno"
slug: "obadiah-ben-jacob-sforno"
description: "Ovadia ben Jacob Sforno was an Italian rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher, and physician. A member of the Sforno family, he was born in Cesena between 1470 and 1475 and died in Bologna in 1549 or 1550."
tagline: "Italian philosopher and rabbi"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1470"
deathDate: "1549"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.965877333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Овадія Сфорно"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadja_ben_Jacob_Sforno"
    title: "Obadja ben Jacob Sforno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah_ben_Jacob_Sforno"
    title: "Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovadia_ben_Jacob_Sforno"
    title: "Ovadia ben Jacob Sforno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%91%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%95"
    title: "עובדיה ספורנו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadja_ben_Szforno"
    title: "Obadja ben Szforno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadja_Sforno"
    title: "Obadja Sforno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owadja_Sforno"
    title: "Owadja Sforno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Сфорно, Овадия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah_ben_Jacob_Sforno"
    title: "Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1195977"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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