# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-edwin-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:10:00.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-edwin-brooks"
name: "William Edwin Brooks"
slug: "william-edwin-brooks"
description: "William Edwin Brooks was a civil engineer in India and an ornithologist. He later settled in Canada where his son Allan Cyril Brooks also became an ornithologist and bird artist of repute. Brooks was a pioneer of identifying species by their calls and he described several new species, particularly warblers in collaboration with Allan Octavian Hume. Brooks's leaf warbler is named after him."
tagline: "Irish civil engineer and ornithologist (1828–1899)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Edwin_Brooks_(cropped2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1828-07-30"
deathDate: "1899-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.81
  momentum:             4.054054054054054
  historical:           8.070410666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwin_Brooks"
    title: "William Edwin Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "ويليام إدوين بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwin_Brooks"
    title: "William Edwin Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwin_Brooks"
    title: "William Edwin Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwin_Brooks"
    title: "William Edwin Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwin_Brooks"
    title: "William Edwin Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwin_Brooks"
    title: "William Edwin Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwin_Brooks"
    title: "William Edwin Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwin_Brooks"
    title: "William Edwin Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4357234"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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