# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-bowes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:40:54.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-bowes"
name: "Bill Bowes"
slug: "bill-bowes"
description: "William Eric Bowes was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsman. He took 1,639 wickets with a best performance of nine for 121 and completed ten wickets in a match 27 times. He scored 1,531 runs with a highest score of 43* and is one of very few major players whose career total of wickets taken exceeded his career total of runs scored. He did not rate himself as a fielder but he nevertheless held 138 catches."
tagline: "Cricket player of England. (1908-1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Bowes_1932.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1908-07-25"
deathDate: "1987-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.42
  momentum:             0.2602230483271375
  historical:           4.876602666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bill Bowes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "বিল বোস"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بل بوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "बिल बोव्स"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "பில் போவ்ஸ்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3528384"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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