# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-cameron-townsend
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:30:06.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-cameron-townsend"
name: "William Cameron Townsend"
slug: "william-cameron-townsend"
description: "William Cameron Townsend was an American Christian missionary-linguist and the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics."
tagline: "American missionary (1896-1982)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1896-07-09"
deathDate: "1982-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump