# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sir-henry-savile
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:51:28.251Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sir-henry-savile"
name: "Sir Henry Savile"
slug: "sir-henry-savile"
description: "Sir Henry Savile was an English scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy and of Geometry at Oxford University, and was one of the scholars who translated the New Testament from Greek into English. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Bossiney in Cornwall in 1589, and Dunwich in Suffolk in 1593."
tagline: "English bible translator (1549-1622)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Savile.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1549-11-30"
deathDate: "1622-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.547157333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "هنرى ساڤيل"
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    title: "হেনরি স্যাভিল (বাইবেল অনুবাদক)"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Savile"
    title: "Henry Savile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Savile"
    title: "Henry Savile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Savile_(Bible_translator)"
    title: "Henry Savile (Bible translator)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Savile"
    title: "Henry Savile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Savile"
    title: "Henry Savile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Savile"
    title: "Henry Savile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Савиль, Генри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump