# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-macewen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:47:06.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-macewen"
name: "William Macewen"
slug: "william-macewen"
description: "Sir William Macewen was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery, considered the father of neurosurgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and of pneumonectomy."
tagline: "Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (1848–1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MacEwen-surgeon_and_neurosurgeon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1848-06-22"
deathDate: "1924-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.36
  momentum:             11.1764705882353
  historical:           7.616236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Макьюэн, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام ماسيوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Macewen"
    title: "William Macewen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Macewen"
    title: "William Macewen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Macewen"
    title: "William Macewen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ویلیام مکیوئین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacEwen"
    title: "William MacEwen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Macewen"
    title: "William Macewen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q977328"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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