# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-dandy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:43:50.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-dandy"
name: "Walter Dandy"
slug: "walter-dandy"
description: "Walter Edward Dandy was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, along with Victor Horsley and Harvey Cushing. Dandy is credited with numerous neurosurgical discoveries and innovations, including the description of the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, surgical treatment of hydrocephalus, the invention of air ventriculography and pneumoencephalography, the description of brain endoscopy, the establishment of the first intensive care unit, and the first clipping of an intracranial aneurysm, which marked the birth of cerebrovascular neurosurgery."
tagline: "American neurosurgeon (1886–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Dandy%2C_ca._1915.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1886-04-06"
deathDate: "1946-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.50097466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump