# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-william-foote
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:19:23.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-william-foote"
name: "George William Foote"
slug: "george-william-foote"
description: "George William Foote was an English radical journalist, writer, editor, publisher, and prominent secularist. He was a leading advocate of freethought, founding and editing notable publications such as The Freethinker and The Secularist and co-founding the British Secular Union. Additionally, he ran a publishing business known as the Pioneer Press. Foote was convicted of blasphemy in 1883 for his satirical attacks on Christianity published in The Freethinker and sentenced to a year in prison. He authored over eighty works, mainly polemical pamphlets, with his editorial essays from The Freethinker compiled into Flowers of Freethought (1893–94)."
tagline: "British secularist and journal editor (1850-1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G._W._Foote.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1850-01-11"
deathDate: "1915-10-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.338985333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump