# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-elgin-swinton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:50:58.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-elgin-swinton"
name: "William Elgin Swinton"
slug: "william-elgin-swinton"
description: "Dr William Elgin Swinton FRSE FLS, was a Scottish paleontologist."
tagline: "Scottish paleontologist (1900-1994)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1900-09-30"
deathDate: "1994-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.55
  momentum:             3.461538461538462
  historical:           7.204248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Elgin_Swinton"
    title: "William Elgin Swinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Elgin_Swinton"
    title: "William Elgin Swinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "ویلیام الگین سوئینتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Elgin_Swinton"
    title: "William Elgin Swinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84_%EC%97%98%EA%B8%B4_%EC%8A%A4%EC%9C%88%ED%8A%BC"
    title: "윌리엄 엘긴 스윈튼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Elgin_Swinton"
    title: "William Elgin Swinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Elgin_Swinton"
    title: "William Elgin Swinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3427442"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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