# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sir-james-wylie
# Generated: 2026-08-16T02:11:29.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sir-james-wylie"
name: "Sir James Wylie"
slug: "sir-james-wylie"
description: "Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet was a Scottish physician known in Russia as Я́ков Васи́льевич Ви́ллие. He served from 1790 until his death in 1854 in the Imperial Russian army as a battlefield surgeon or as the director of army medicine, or concurrently as both; also from 1798 until 1854 as an Imperial Court physician; and from 1808 to 1838 as president of Saint Petersburg's Medico-Chirurgical Academy and its annex at Moscow. He participated as a battlefield surgeon in 40 major battles, and in about half of these directed the army's entire medical services. He is widely considered the foremost contributor to the creation of battlefield medicine, and to major developments in military medical training within Imperial Russia during the first half of 19th century. He is well known within Russia, but not elsewhere."
tagline: "Scottish imperial physician and reformer in Russia"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Wylie_by_Zichi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1768-11-20"
deathDate: "1854-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.57
  momentum:             0.2601156069364162
  historical:           5.993453333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Wylie%2C_Baronet_wa_kwanza"
    title: "Sir James Wylie, Baronet wa kwanza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "السير جيمس ويلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%9E_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B5"
    title: "Якаў Васілевіч Віліе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Wylie"
    title: "Sir James Wylie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wylie_(Mediziner)"
    title: "James Wylie (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Wylie%2C_1st_Baronet"
    title: "Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B5%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Виллие, Яков Васильевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1681328"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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