# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-cockerill
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:14:33.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-cockerill"
name: "William Cockerill"
slug: "william-cockerill"
description: "William Cockerill (1759–1832) was an English inventor, entrepreneur, and industrialist. Designing and producing machines for new industrial textile manufacturing, he is best known for having established a major manufacturing firm in what is now Liège Province of modern-day Belgium. He is widely considered to have been instrumental in spreading the Industrial Revolution in Continental Europe."
tagline: "British entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_(Guillaume)_Cockerill.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1759-03-27"
deathDate: "1832-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.98
  momentum:             8.910812943962116
  historical:           5.682002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cockerill"
    title: "William Cockerill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cockerill%2C_Senior"
    title: "William Cockerill, Senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cockerill"
    title: "William Cockerill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Кокрил, Вильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cockerill"
    title: "William Cockerill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cockerill"
    title: "William Cockerill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q743350"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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