# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-dill-scott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:34:31.287Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-dill-scott"
name: "Walter Dill Scott"
slug: "walter-dill-scott"
description: "Walter Dill Scott was an American psychologist and academic administrator who was one of the first applied psychologists and the 10th president of Northwestern University. He applied psychology to various business practices such as personnel selection and advertising."
tagline: "President of Northwestern University and psychologist (1869–1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/111-SC-7224_-_Dr_Walter_Dill_Scott_-_NARA_-_55175266-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1869-05-01"
deathDate: "1955-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.481390666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walter Dill Scott"
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    title: "والتر ديل سكوت"
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    title: "Walter Dill Scott"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Dill_Scott"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dill_Scott"
    title: "Walter Dill Scott"
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  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dill_Scott"
    title: "Walter Dill Scott"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3565739"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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