# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-pulteney-alison
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:44:40.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-pulteney-alison"
name: "William Pulteney Alison"
slug: "william-pulteney-alison"
description: "William Pulteney Alison FRSE FRCPE FSA was a Scottish physician, social reformer and philanthropist. He was a distinguished professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He served as president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh (1833), president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1836–38), and vice-president of the British Medical Association, convening its meeting in Edinburgh in 1858."
tagline: "Scottish physician; (1790-1859)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Pulteney_Alison.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1790-11-12"
deathDate: "1859-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.57
  momentum:             2.842105263157895
  historical:           5.671058666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alison"
    title: "William Alison"
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    title: "William Alison"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8756456"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump