# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/payne-whitney
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:03:32.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/payne-whitney"
name: "Payne Whitney"
slug: "payne-whitney"
description: "William Payne Whitney was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune and enlarged it through business dealings, then devoted much of his money and efforts to a wide variety of philanthropic purposes. His will included funds to expand the New York Hospital, now called NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic was established."
tagline: "American businessman (1876–1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Payne_Whitney_(ca._1899).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1876-03-20"
deathDate: "1927-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.693162666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Payne_Whitney"
    title: "William Payne Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "باين ويتني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "باين ويتنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Уитни, Пейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Payne_Whitney"
    title: "William Payne Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Payne_Whitney"
    title: "William Payne Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7156835"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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