# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-b-ruger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:07:10.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-b-ruger"
name: "William B. Ruger"
slug: "william-b-ruger"
description: "William Batterman Ruger was an American firearms designer and entrepreneur, who partnered with Alexander McCormick Sturm to establish Sturm, Ruger & Company in 1949. Their first product was the Ruger Standard, the most popular .22 caliber target pistol ever made in the United States. After Sturm’s death in 1951, and under Ruger’s continued leadership, the company produced one of the widest varieties of firearms of any manufacturer in the world."
tagline: "American inventor (1916–2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/Bill_ruger.jpg/330px-Bill_ruger.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-06-21"
deathDate: "2002-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.079776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام باترمان روجر"
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    title: "William B. Ruger"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Ruger"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "ویلیام روگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Ruger"
    title: "William B. Ruger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ruger"
    title: "William Ruger"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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