# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-plowright
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:54:30.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-plowright"
name: "Walter Plowright"
slug: "walter-plowright"
description: "Walter Plowright was an English veterinary scientist who devoted his career to the eradication of the cattle plague rinderpest. Plowright received the 1999 World Food Prize for his development of tissue culture rinderpest vaccine (TCRV), the key element in the quest to eliminate rinderpest. Rinderpest became the first animal disease to be eliminated worldwide."
tagline: "English veterinarian (1923-2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-07-20"
deathDate: "2010-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.36
  momentum:             1.610169491525424
  historical:           5.671598666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walter Plowright"
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    title: "والتر بلاو رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر بلاو رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Plowright"
    title: "Walter Plowright"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Plowright"
    title: "Walter Plowright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Plowright"
    title: "Walter Plowright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153291"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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