# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-james-mayo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:11:54.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-james-mayo"
name: "William James Mayo"
slug: "william-james-mayo"
description: "William James Mayo was a physician and surgeon in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s. In 1919, that practice became the not-for-profit Mayo Clinic."
tagline: "American surgeon (1861-1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_James_Mayo_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1861-06-29"
deathDate: "1939-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.676212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump