# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-doherty
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:28:26.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-doherty"
name: "William Doherty"
slug: "william-doherty"
description: "William Doherty was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and later also collected birds for the Natural History Museum at Tring. He died of dysentery while in Nairobi."
tagline: "American entomologist (1857–1901)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1857-05-15"
deathDate: "1901-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.91
  momentum:             21.04938271604938
  historical:           7.404680000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Doherty"
    title: "William Doherty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام دوهرتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Doherty"
    title: "William Doherty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Doherty"
    title: "William Doherty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Doherty"
    title: "William Doherty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Doherty"
    title: "William Doherty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Догерти, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Doherty"
    title: "William Doherty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568555"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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