# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bowie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:12.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bowie"
name: "William Bowie"
slug: "william-bowie"
description: "William Bowie was an American geodetic engineer noted for promoting geophysical sciences and for being the first President of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The William Bowie Medal, the highest honor of the AGU, is named in his honor."
tagline: "American engineer and geodesist (1872–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Bowie_NOAA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1872-05-06"
deathDate: "1940-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.63
  momentum:             3.073529411764706
  historical:           8.538265333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Боуи, Уильям"
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    title: "ویلیام بووی (مۆهندیس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowie"
    title: "William Bowie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowie_(Geod%C3%A4t)"
    title: "William Bowie (Geodät)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowie_(engineer)"
    title: "William Bowie (engineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowie"
    title: "William Bowie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowie"
    title: "William Bowie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowie"
    title: "William Bowie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowie"
    title: "William Bowie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowie"
    title: "William Bowie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718065"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump