# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sir-william-congreve-2nd-baronet
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:37:43.989Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sir-william-congreve-2nd-baronet"
name: "Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet"
slug: "sir-william-congreve-2nd-baronet"
description: "Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet KCH FRS was a British Army officer, Tory politician, publisher and inventor. A pioneer in the field of rocket artillery, he was renowned for his development and use of Congreve rockets during the Napoleonic Wars. His adaptation of Mysorean rocket technology from the Kingdom of Mysore represented a crucial development in the history of military rocketry, bridging Eastern innovation with Western industrial production and establishing rocket artillery as a practical weapon system that would influence military technology into the space age."
tagline: "British politician (1772–1828)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_William_Congreve%2C_2nd_Bt_by_James_Lonsdale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1772-05-20"
deathDate: "1828-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.44
  momentum:             6.704769099258493
  historical:           16.16508533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "السير وليام كنغرف، برونت الثاني"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve_(Erfinder)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve_(in%C4%9Deniero)"
    title: "William Congreve (inĝeniero)"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve_(keksij%C3%A4)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve_(inventeur)"
    title: "William Congreve (inventeur)"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%91%2C_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%98_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sir William Congreve, Baronet ke-2"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve_(inventore)"
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    title: "William Congreve (wynalazca)"
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    title: "Вилијам Конгрив"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve_(uppfinnare)"
    title: "William Congreve (uppfinnare)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump