# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/varaztad-kazanjian
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:25:17.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/varaztad-kazanjian"
name: "Varaztad Kazanjian"
slug: "varaztad-kazanjian"
description: "Varaztad H. Kazanjian was an Armenian American oral surgeon who pioneered techniques for plastic surgery and is considered to be the founder of the modern practice of plastic surgery. He graduated from Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1905. He served as Professor of Oral Surgery from 1922 to 1939 and he was the first to hold the title of Professor of Plastic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He also co-authored the first concise book on plastic surgery."
tagline: "Armenian academic (1879–1974)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Varaztad_kazanjian.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-03-18"
deathDate: "1974-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.015012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Varaztad Kazancıyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varaztad_Kazanjian"
    title: "Varaztad Kazanjian"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varaztad_Kazanjian"
    title: "Varaztad Kazanjian"
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    title: "Газандян, Вараздат"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump