# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wu-lien-teh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:07:02.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wu-lien-teh"
name: "Wu Lien-teh"
slug: "wu-lien-teh"
description: "Wu Lien-teh (Chinese: 伍連德; pinyin: Wǔ Liándé; Jyutping: Ng5 Lin4 Dak1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gó͘ Liân-tek; Goh Lean Tuck and Ng Leen Tuck in Hokkien and Cantonese transliteration respectively; 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malayan physician renowned for his work in public health, particularly the Manchurian plague of 1910–11. He is the inventor of the Wu mask, which is the forerunner of today's N95 respirator."
tagline: "Malaysian physician (1879–1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wu_Lien-teh_-_c._1910%E2%80%931915.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-03-10"
deathDate: "1960-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.684528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wu Lien-te"
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    title: "Wu Lien-teh"
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    title: "വു ലിയാൻ-തെഹ്"
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    title: "Wu Lien-teh"
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    title: "Wu Lien-teh"
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    title: "อู่ เหลียนเต๋อ"
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    title: "Ngũ Liên Đức"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump