# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-james-graves
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:29:16.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-james-graves"
name: "Robert James Graves"
slug: "robert-james-graves"
description: "Robert James Graves was an Anglo-Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the co-founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. He is also claimed to be the uncredited inventor of the second-hand on watches."
tagline: "Irish surgeon (1796–1853)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Statue_of_Robert_James_Graves_Wellcome_M0002631.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1796-03-27"
deathDate: "1853-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.42286
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Graves"
    title: "Robert James Graves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B2"
    title: "روبرت جيمس جريفز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Graves"
    title: "Robert James Graves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Graves"
    title: "Robert James Graves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Graves"
    title: "Robert James Graves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Graves"
    title: "Robert James Graves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Graves"
    title: "Robert James Graves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_James_Graves"
    title: "Robert James Graves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q779446"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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