# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-a-cash
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:10:32.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-a-cash"
name: "Richard A. Cash"
slug: "richard-a-cash"
description: "Richard Alan Cash was an American global health researcher, public health physician, and internist. He was a pioneer of oral rehydration therapy for lethal diseases such as cholera. This simple, practical therapy is estimated to have saved over 50 million lives."
tagline: "American global health researcher (1941–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2018-11-19_165302-Richard_Alan_Cash_at_51yrsOfORT.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-06-09"
deathDate: "2024-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.6
  momentum:             4.3125
  historical:           4.608244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "ريتشارد ألان كاش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C._%D9%86%D9%82%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "ریچارد ائی. نقدی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Cash"
    title: "Richard A. Cash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Cash"
    title: "Richard A. Cash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Cash"
    title: "Richard A. Cash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7323547"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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