# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-brooke-o-shaughnessy
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:26:14.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-brooke-o-shaughnessy"
name: "William Brooke O'Shaughnessy"
slug: "william-brooke-o-shaughnessy"
description: "Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy was an Irish physician famous for his wide-ranging scientific work in pharmacology, chemistry, and inventions related to telegraphy and its use in India. His medical research led to the development of intravenous therapy and introduced the therapeutic use of medical cannabis to Western medicine."
tagline: "Irish physician and polymath (1809–1889)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Brooke_O%E2%80%99Shaughnessy_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1809-10-31"
deathDate: "1889-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.88
  momentum:             18.20964749536178
  historical:           7.425632
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 222
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    title: "William Brooke O’Shaughnessy"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump