# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-sutherland
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:06:51.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-sutherland"
name: "Walter Sutherland"
slug: "walter-sutherland"
description: "Walter Sutherland was a Scottish man, who was reportedly the last native speaker of Norn, a North Germanic language which had once been spoken throughout Shetland, Orkney and Caithness. Sutherland was from Skaw, on the island of Unst, and quoted as being a fisherman who lived in the northernmost house in the British Isles, near the present-day Unst Boat Haven."
tagline: "Last known speaker of Norn"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1750"
deathDate: "1850"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.7
  momentum:             0.4116945107398569
  historical:           7.729486666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland_(Norn)"
    title: "Walter Sutherland (Norn)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland"
    title: "Walter Sutherland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland_(Norn)"
    title: "Walter Sutherland (Norn)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland_(Norn)"
    title: "Walter Sutherland (Norn)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland"
    title: "Walter Sutherland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland"
    title: "Walter Sutherland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland"
    title: "Walter Sutherland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland"
    title: "Walter Sutherland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds_nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutherland"
    title: "Walter Sutherland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4018026"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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