# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virginia-apgar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:20:47.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virginia-apgar"
name: "Virginia Apgar"
slug: "virginia-apgar"
description: "Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns. Given at one minute and five minutes after birth, the Apgar test measures a child's breathing, skin color, reflexes, motion, and heart rate. A friend said, \"She probably did more than any other physician to bring the problem of birth defects out of back rooms.\" She was a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and introduced obstetrical considerations to the established field of neonatology."
tagline: "American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1909-06-07"
deathDate: "1974-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump