# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-dampier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:32:20.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-dampier"
name: "William Dampier"
slug: "william-dampier"
description: "William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between the 16th-century explorer Sir Francis Drake and the 18th-century explorer James Cook; he \"bridged those two eras\" with a mix of piratical derring-do of the former and scientific inquiry of the latter."
tagline: "British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dampier-portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1651"
deathDate: "1715"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.276444
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump