# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-clopton-wingfield
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:01:29.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-clopton-wingfield"
name: "Walter Clopton Wingfield"
slug: "walter-clopton-wingfield"
description: "Major Walter Clopton Wingfield was a Welsh inventor and a British Army officer who was one of the pioneers of lawn tennis. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997 as the founder of modern lawn tennis, an example of the original equipment for the sport and a bust of Wingfield can be seen at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum."
tagline: "Welsh sportsman and military officer (1833–1912); inventor of modern tennis"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1833-10-16"
deathDate: "1912-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump