# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-archibald-spooner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:06:41.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-archibald-spooner"
name: "William Archibald Spooner"
slug: "william-archibald-spooner"
description: "William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner."
tagline: "British priest known for his Spoonerisms (1844-1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Archibald_Spooner_Vanity_Fair_1898-04-21.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1844-07-22"
deathDate: "1930-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.42
  momentum:             21.31263383297645
  historical:           9.737124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump