# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-close
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:02:01.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-close"
name: "William Close"
slug: "william-close"
description: "William Taliaferro Close was an American surgeon who played a major role in stemming a 1976 outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire, the first major outbreak of the viral hemorrhagic fever in Central Africa, and preventing its further spread. He was also the father of Oscar-nominated actress Glenn Close and husband of Bettine Moore Close."
tagline: "American surgeon (1924-2009)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-06-07"
deathDate: "2009-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             5.769230769230769
  historical:           4.547852
  currentAttention:     32.05128205128205
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167084/"
    handle:    "nm0167084"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "ويليام كلوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Close"
    title: "William Close"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Close"
    title: "William Close"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Close"
    title: "William Close"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8006910"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5491900"
    title: "William Close"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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