# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bernbach
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:10:41.838Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bernbach"
name: "William Bernbach"
slug: "william-bernbach"
description: "William Bernbach was an American advertising creative director. He was one of the three founders in 1949 of the international advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB). He directed many of the firm's breakthrough ad campaigns and had a lasting impact on the creative team structures now commonly used by ad agencies."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Bernbach.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1911-08-13"
deathDate: "1982-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.71209866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump