# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-william-fairfax
# Generated: 2026-09-07T23:03:51.964Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-william-fairfax"
name: "George William Fairfax"
slug: "george-william-fairfax"
description: "George William Fairfax was an American planter in colonial Virginia who represented then-vast Frederick County and later Fairfax County in the House of Burgesses before the American Revolutionary War, by which time he had returned to England. A mentor and good friend of George Washington, Fairfax made opportunities for the younger Washington through his powerful British family, and Washington assisted him afterward by arranging for the sale of his Virginia property after he returned to Britain."
tagline: "Landowner"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/George_William_Fairfax_MET_ap45.155.jpg/330px-George_William_Fairfax_MET_ap45.155.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1729-02-26"
deathDate: "1787-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.38
  momentum:             14.94622459575731
  historical:           2.438196
  currentAttention:     77.38095238095238
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Fairfax"
    title: "George William Fairfax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Fairfax"
    title: "George William Fairfax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5546312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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