# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bourne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:15:24.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bourne"
name: "William Bourne"
slug: "william-bourne"
description: "William Bourne was an English mathematician, innkeeper and former Royal Navy gunner who presented the first design for a navigable submarine and wrote important navigational manuals. He is often called William Bourne of Gravesend."
tagline: "English mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/First_page_of_William_Bourne's_%22Inventions_or_Devises%22.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1535"
deathDate: "1583-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             0.9779179810725552
  historical:           7.679194666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Bourne"
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    title: "William Bourne"
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    title: "William Bourne"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bourne"
    title: "William Bourne"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bourne_(mathematician)"
    title: "William Bourne (mathematician)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bourne"
    title: "William Bourne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bourne"
    title: "William Bourne"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bourne"
    title: "William Bourne"
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  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bourne"
    title: "William Bourne"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568450"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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