# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-gordon-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:21:14.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-gordon-wilson"
name: "Walter Gordon Wilson"
slug: "walter-gordon-wilson"
description: "Major Walter Gordon Wilson was an Irish mechanical engineer, inventor and member of the British Royal Naval Air Service. He was credited by the 1919 Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors as the co-inventor of the tank, along with Sir William Tritton."
tagline: "Engineer (1874-1957)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-04-21"
deathDate: "1957-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.422212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gordon_Wilson"
    title: "Walter Gordon Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gordon_Wilson"
    title: "Walter Gordon Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gordon_Wilson"
    title: "Walter Gordon Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gordon_Wilson"
    title: "Walter Gordon Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gordon_Wilson"
    title: "Walter Gordon Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gordon_Wilson"
    title: "Walter Gordon Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gordon_Wilson"
    title: "Walter Gordon Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Вильсон, Уолтер Гордон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7964992"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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