# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-abbott-herdman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:56:57.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-abbott-herdman"
name: "William Abbott Herdman"
slug: "william-abbott-herdman"
description: "Sir William Abbott Herdman FRS FRSE FLS was a Scottish marine zoologist and oceanographer."
tagline: "Scottish marine zoologist, oceanographer (1858–1924)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/PSM_V68_D015_British_association_members_of_the_voyage.png/330px-PSM_V68_D015_British_association_members_of_the_voyage.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1858-09-05"
deathDate: "1924-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.602268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام ابوت هيردمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Abbott_Herdman"
    title: "William Abbott Herdman"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Abbott_Herdman"
    title: "William Abbott Herdman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хердман, Уильям Эббот"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Abbott_Herdman"
    title: "William Abbott Herdman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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