# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-thomson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:24:16.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-thomson"
name: "Bill Thomson"
slug: "bill-thomson"
description: "William Ferguson Thomson was a Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player. He played nine games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings during the 1938–39 and 1943–44 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1931 to 1947, was spent in various minor leagues. Internationally Thomson played for Canada at the 1936 Winter Olympics, winning the silver medal."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player (1914–1993)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1914-03-23"
deathDate: "1993-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             8.509984639016897
  historical:           9.604284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E6%B1%A4%E5%A7%86%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "比尔·汤姆森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF)"
    title: "بيل تومسون (لاعب هوكي الجليد)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF)"
    title: "بيل تومسون (لاعب هوكى الجليد)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson_(jugador_d'hoquei_sobre_gel)"
    title: "William Thomson (jugador d'hoquei sobre gel)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thomson"
    title: "Bill Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thomson_(ice_hockey)"
    title: "Bill Thomson (ice hockey)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بیل تامسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thomson"
    title: "Bill Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thomson"
    title: "Bill Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson_(ishockeyspiller)"
    title: "William Thomson (ishockeyspiller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thomson_(ishockeyspelare)"
    title: "Bill Thomson (ishockeyspelare)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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