# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-e-upjohn
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:40:30.485Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-e-upjohn"
name: "William E. Upjohn"
slug: "william-e-upjohn"
description: "William Erastus Upjohn was an American physician and both founder and president of The Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company. He was named Person of the Century by the Kalamazoo, Michigan, newspaper."
tagline: "Doctor and Medical Pioneer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1_WE_Upjohn_5x8.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1853-06-15"
deathDate: "1932-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.679770666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ویلیام ئی. آپجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "وليام اى ابجون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Upjohn"
    title: "William E. Upjohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7E%C2%B7%E5%8E%84%E6%99%AE%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0"
    title: "威廉·E·厄普约翰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Erastus_Upjohn"
    title: "William Erastus Upjohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Upjohn"
    title: "William E. Upjohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6220164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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