# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/percivall-pott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:29:12.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/percivall-pott"
name: "Percivall Pott"
slug: "percivall-pott"
description: "Percivall Pott was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps' carcinoma. Many diseases are his namesake including Pott's fracture, Pott's disease of the spine, and Pott's puffy tumour. It is believed that Pott's standard of living contributed to the rise of the surgeon within social standings."
tagline: "British surgeon (1714-1788)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Percivall_Pott_(1713%E2%80%931788)_(by_George_Romney).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1714-01-06"
deathDate: "1788-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.98
  momentum:             2.916661969766996
  historical:           14.649032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Персівалл Потт"
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    title: "بيرسيفال بوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percivall Pott"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percivall_Pott"
    title: "Percivall Pott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percivall_Pott"
    title: "Percivall Pott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percivall Pott"
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    title: "Percivall Pott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percivall_Pott"
    title: "Percivall Pott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percivall Pott"
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    title: "Percivallus Pott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percivall Pott"
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    title: "Percivall Pott"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump