# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:38.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-williams"
name: "Francis Williams"
slug: "francis-williams"
description: "Francis Williams was a Jamaican polymath, scholar, astronomer and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, into a slaveholding family, Williams subsequently travelled to England where he officially became a British subject. After returning to Jamaica, he established a free school for free people of colour in Jamaica. His portrait is considered to be the earliest-known example in the canon of western art to have been commissioned by a known Black person to record their own intellectual achievements."
tagline: "Jamaican scholar and polymath"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_williams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1702"
deathDate: "1770"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.556085333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC%D1%81%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81_(%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%8D%D1%82)"
    title: "Уильямс, Фрэнсис (поэт)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A)"
    title: "فرنسيس وليامز (رياضياتي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Williams_(polymath)"
    title: "Francis Williams (polymath)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Williams"
    title: "Francis Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Williams_(po%C3%A8te)"
    title: "Francis Williams (poète)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Williams"
    title: "Francis Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Williams_(pol%C3%ADmata)"
    title: "Francis Williams (polímata)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5482798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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