# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-william-dunne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:26.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-william-dunne"
name: "John William Dunne"
slug: "john-william-dunne"
description: "John William Dunne was a British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher. As a young man he fought in the Second Boer War, before becoming a pioneering aeroplane designer in the early years of the 20th century. Dunne worked on automatically stable aircraft, many of which were of tailless swept wing design, to achieve the first aircraft demonstrated to be stable. He later developed a new approach to dry fly fishing before turning to speculative philosophy, where he achieved some prominence and literary influence through his \"serialism\" theory on the nature of time and consciousness, first set out in his 1927 book An Experiment with Time."
tagline: "British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher (1875–1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_William_Dunne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1875"
deathDate: "1949-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.215515295007841
  historical:           11.17815333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John William Dunne"
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    title: "John William Dunne"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump