# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-connolley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:29:11.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-connolley"
name: "William Connolley"
slug: "william-connolley"
description: "William Michael Connolley is a retired British software engineer, writer, and blogger on climatology. Until December 2007 he was Senior Scientific Officer in the Physical Sciences Division in the Antarctic Climate and the Earth System project at the British Antarctic Survey, where he worked as a climate modeller. After that he became a software engineer for Cambridge Silicon Radio."
tagline: "Software engineer, climatologist, writer (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Connolley_2008_Cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1964-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.211678832116788
  historical:           6.139849333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk"
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    title: "வில்லியம் கானலே"
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    title: "William Connolley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Connolley"
    title: "William Connolley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Connolley"
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    title: "Коннолли, Уильям"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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