# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-boyce-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:50:14.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-boyce-thompson"
name: "William Boyce Thompson"
slug: "william-boyce-thompson"
description: "William Boyce Thompson was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the early twentieth century mine operators that discovered and exploited vast copper deposits that revolutionized Western American mining, and reaped tremendous fortunes. The William Boyce Thompson School in Yonkers, New York, is named after him."
tagline: "American engineer (1869–1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Boyce_Thompson_circa_1928.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1869-05-13"
deathDate: "1930-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.01
  momentum:             5.259740259740258
  historical:           7.024948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Томпсон, Уильям Бойс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام بويس تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام بويس تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyce_Thompson"
    title: "William Boyce Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyce_Thompson"
    title: "William Boyce Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyce_Thompson"
    title: "William Boyce Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyce_Thompson"
    title: "William Boyce Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyce_Thompson"
    title: "William Boyce Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568455"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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