# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-john-little
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:31.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-john-little"
name: "William John Little"
slug: "william-john-little"
description: "William John Little (1810–1894) was an English surgeon who is credited with the first medical identification of spastic diplegia, when he observed it in the 1860s amongst children. While spasticity surely existed before that point, Little was the first person to medically record the condition in writing. Thus, for many years, spastic diplegia was known as Little's Disease; only later did the name change. Also, Little founded the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital of London."
tagline: "English surgeon"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_John_Little.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1810-08-06"
deathDate: "1894-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.38
  momentum:             0.4166666666666667
  historical:           5.678222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Little"
    title: "William John Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84"
    title: "وليام جون ليتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Little"
    title: "William John Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Литтл, Уильям Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Little"
    title: "William John Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Little"
    title: "William John Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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