# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-edwin-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:20:19.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-edwin-anderson"
name: "William Edwin Anderson"
slug: "william-edwin-anderson"
description: "William Anderson FRCS was an English surgeon born in Shoreditch, London. He was professor of anatomy at the Royal Academy in London, and an important collector and scholar of Japanese art. He was the first chairman of the Japan Society. The genetic disorder Anderson-Fabry disease is named after him."
tagline: "English surgeon, Japanese art collector, and art historian (1842–1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Anderson_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1842-12-18"
deathDate: "1900-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.94
  momentum:             7.82118137859107
  historical:           5.675378666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anderson_(collector)"
    title: "William Anderson (collector)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anderson_(metge)"
    title: "William Anderson (metge)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anderson_(Mediziner)"
    title: "William Anderson (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3_(%E5%8C%BB%E5%B8%AB)"
    title: "ウィリアム・アンダーソン (医師)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B9%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "ویلیام اندرسون (مجموعه‌دار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anderson_(m%C3%A9decin)"
    title: "William Anderson (médecin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1537815"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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