# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-freund-q101074260
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:25:34.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-freund-q101074260"
name: "Bill Freund"
slug: "bill-freund-q101074260"
description: "William Mark Freund was an American historian and academic, widely recognised as an authority on the economic and labour history of Africa, particularly South Africa."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Bill_Freund.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944"
deathDate: "2020-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.35
  momentum:             17.17948717948718
  historical:           6.60342
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%86%DA%88_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "بل فرائنڈ (مورخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "صديق بيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Freund_(Historiker)"
    title: "Bill Freund (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Freund_(historian)"
    title: "Bill Freund (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Freund_(masanin_tarih)"
    title: "Bill Freund (masanin tarih)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Freund_(sejarawan)"
    title: "Bill Freund (sejarawan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Freund_(onye_na-ak%E1%BB%8D_ak%E1%BB%A5k%E1%BB%8D_ihe_mere_eme)"
    title: "Bill Freund (onye na-akọ akụkọ ihe mere eme)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Freund_(mwanahistoria)"
    title: "Bill Freund (mwanahistoria)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101074260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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