# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-bayley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:47.978Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-bayley"
name: "Richard Bayley"
slug: "richard-bayley"
description: "Richard Bayley was a New York City physician and the first chief health officer of the city. An expert in yellow fever, he helped discover its epidemiology, improved city sanitation, and authored the federal Quarantine Act of 1799. The 1788 Doctors' Riot was sparked by fears that his students were secretly removing corpses from graves in order to dissect them."
tagline: "American physician and surgeon"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Richard_Bayley_%28NYPL_431421%29.jpg/330px-Richard_Bayley_%28NYPL_431421%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1745"
deathDate: "1801-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.41
  momentum:             17.03125
  historical:           3.074982666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ريتشارد بايلى"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bayley"
    title: "Richard Bayley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations