# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-kirby
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:09:06.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-kirby"
name: "Roger Kirby"
slug: "roger-kirby"
description: "Roger Sinclair Kirby FRCS(Urol), FEBU is a British retired prostate surgeon and professor of urology. He is prominent as a writer on men's health and prostate disease, the founding editor of the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases and Trends in Urology and Men's Health and a fundraiser for prostate disease charities, best known for his use of the da Vinci surgical robot for laparoscopic prostatectomy in the treatment of prostate cancer. He is a co-founder and president of the charity The Urology Foundation (TUF), vice-president of the charity Prostate Cancer UK, trustee of the King Edward VII's Hospital, and from 2020 to 2024 was president of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London."
tagline: "British retired surgeon and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Kirby.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: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.22
  momentum:             2.409262604696994
  historical:           2.472016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kirby"
    title: "Roger Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kirby"
    title: "Roger Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7358463"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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