# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-wharton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:42:43.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-wharton"
name: "Thomas Wharton"
slug: "thomas-wharton"
description: "Thomas Wharton (1614–1673) was an English physician and anatomist best known for his descriptions of the submandibular duct and Wharton's jelly of the umbilical cord. He is known mostly from his one published work Adenographia, Glandularum, Totius Corporis Descriptio published in 1656."
tagline: "English anatomist (1614–1673)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Wharton_(1614-1673).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1614-08-31"
deathDate: "1673-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.5
  momentum:             5.55
  historical:           6.540497333333334
  currentAttention:     8.040000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton_(anatom)"
    title: "Thomas Wharton (anatom)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton_(anatomista)"
    title: "Thomas Wharton (anatomista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton_(Mediziner)"
    title: "Thomas Wharton (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton_(anatomist)"
    title: "Thomas Wharton (anatomist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton_(anatomiste)"
    title: "Thomas Wharton (anatomiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wharton_(anatomista)"
    title: "Thomas Wharton (anatomista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Вартон, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2499418"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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