# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-cowper-brann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:18:33.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-cowper-brann"
name: "William Cowper Brann"
slug: "william-cowper-brann"
description: "William Cowper Brann was an American journalist also known as Brann the Iconoclast. During his life, he gained a reputation as a \"brilliant though vitriolic editorialist.\" He defended lynching Black men accused of rape and called for opponents of this type of mob violence to be castrated."
tagline: "American journalist (1855–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WCBrann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1855-01-04"
deathDate: "1898-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.25
  momentum:             1.621621621621622
  historical:           4.60774
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ويليام كوبر بران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام كوبر بران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cowper_Brann"
    title: "William Cowper Brann"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cowper_Brann"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Cowper_Brann"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007208"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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