# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-french-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:49:54.855Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-french-anderson"
name: "William French Anderson"
slug: "william-french-anderson"
description: "William French Anderson is an American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is known as the \"father of gene therapy\". He graduated from Harvard College in 1958, Trinity College, Cambridge in 1960, and from Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990 he was the first person to succeed in carrying out gene therapy by treating a 4-year-old girl suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency."
tagline: "American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist, known as the Father of Gene Therapy"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._W._French_Anderson_at_Gene_therapy_press_conference_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
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  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             3.510638297872341
  historical:           6.549101333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump