# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-pope
# Generated: 2026-09-01T22:41:46.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-pope"
name: "Walter Pope"
slug: "walter-pope"
description: "Walter Pope was an English astronomer and poet. He was the son of Francis Pope and Jane Dod, daughter of the Puritan minister John Dod. He was born in Northamptonshire and was the half brother of John Wilkins, who would become bishop of Chester and one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, with a BA in 1649, MA in 1651. Until the Restoration, he worked in Wadham College."
tagline: "British astronomer"
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: "1627"
deathDate: "1714"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           30.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.401296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Pope"
    title: "Walter Pope"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Pope"
    title: "Walter Pope"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965857"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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