# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-david-gross
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:44:34.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-david-gross"
name: "Samuel David Gross"
slug: "samuel-david-gross"
description: "Samuel David Gross was an American academic trauma surgeon. Surgeon biographer Isaac Minis Hays called Gross \"The Nestor of American Surgery.\" He is immortalized in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic (1875), a prominent American painting of the nineteenth century. A bronze statue of him was cast by Alexander Stirling Calder and erected on the National Mall, but moved in 1970 to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia."
tagline: "American surgeon (1805–1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_David_Gross_2.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1805-07-08"
deathDate: "1884-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.017892
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Gross"
    title: "Samuel D. Gross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF._%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "صموئيل د. غروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF._%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "صموئيل د. جروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D8%AF%DB%8C._%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "ساموئل دی. قروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Gross"
    title: "Samuel D. Gross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%AC%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B5%CE%BB_%CE%9D%CF%84._%CE%93%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Σάμιουελ Ντ. Γκρος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Gross"
    title: "Samuel D. Gross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_David_Gross"
    title: "Samuel David Gross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1512038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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