# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-asher
# Generated: 2026-09-08T19:52:51.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-asher"
name: "Richard Asher"
slug: "richard-asher"
description: "Richard Alan John Asher was a British endocrinologist and haematologist. As the senior physician responsible for the mental observation ward at the Central Middlesex Hospital he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet."
tagline: "British endocrinologist and haematologist (1912-1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Asher_for_Wikipedia.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1912-04-03"
deathDate: "1969-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.401085333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard Asher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد آشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Asher"
    title: "Richard Asher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Asher"
    title: "Richard Asher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Asher"
    title: "Richard Asher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Asher"
    title: "Richard Asher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A6'%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%A8"
    title: "ריצ'רד אשר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719691"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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