# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-willson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:20:58.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-willson"
name: "Bernard Willson"
slug: "bernard-willson"
description: "Harold Bernard Willson was a British linguist and noted academic, who during the Second World War was the first person to decrypt the Italian Navy Hagelin C-38 code machine. He was the father of television presenter and motoring journalist Quentin Willson."
tagline: "British linguist, academic"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-02-25"
deathDate: "1994-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.56
  momentum:             13.98930481283422
  historical:           1.539669333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  39
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Willson"
    title: "Bernard Willson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15990364"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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