# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-townesend
# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:01:59.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-townesend"
name: "Stephen Townesend"
slug: "stephen-townesend"
description: "Stephen Chapman Townesend was an English surgeon, stage actor, writer and anti-vivisectionist."
tagline: "English surgeon and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Townesend_1899.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1860"
deathDate: "1914"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.540353333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Townesend_(surgeon)"
    title: "Stephen Townesend (surgeon)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108091719"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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