# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-byrd-i
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:18:50.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-byrd-i"
name: "William Byrd I"
slug: "william-byrd-i"
description: "William Byrd I was an English-born Virginia colonist and politician. In Virginia, the spelling Byrd became standard, and several further generations of his descendants would share the same name, as well as hold important political offices and, increasingly, operate plantations using enslaved labor."
tagline: "American politician 1652-1704"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/William_Byrd_I.jpg/330px-William_Byrd_I.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1652"
deathDate: "1704-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.37
  momentum:             5.447132039608817
  historical:           3.295034666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Byrd_I"
    title: "William Byrd I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Byrd_I"
    title: "William Byrd I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_I"
    title: "Бэрд, Уильям I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568468"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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