# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-foege
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:15:15.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-foege"
name: "William Foege"
slug: "william-foege"
description: "William Herbert Foege was an American physician and epidemiologist who is credited with \"devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s\". From May 1977 to 1983, Foege served as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Foege also \"played a central role\" in efforts that greatly increased immunization rates in developing countries in the 1980s."
tagline: "American epidemiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_H._Foege_Color.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: "1936-03-12"
deathDate: "2026-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.79
  momentum:             0.3508771929824562
  historical:           8.563321333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Foege"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foege"
    title: "William Foege"
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    title: "Gulielmus Foege"
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    title: "വില്യം ഫോഗ്"
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    title: "William Foege"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фейги, Уильям"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foege"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump