# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-ellsworth-robinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:31:56.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-ellsworth-robinson"
name: "William Ellsworth Robinson"
slug: "william-ellsworth-robinson"
description: "William Ellsworth Robinson was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo. He is mostly remembered today for his extensive use of yellowface in his act to falsely represent himself to be a Chinese man who spoke little English, as well as for his accidental death due to a failed bullet catch trick."
tagline: "American magician (1861–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chung_Ling_Soo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1861-04-02"
deathDate: "1918-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.71
  momentum:             0.001603592046183451
  historical:           12.624532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "程連蘇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشينج لينج سو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "تشينج لينج سو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo"
    title: "Chung Ling Soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo"
    title: "Chung Ling Soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo"
    title: "Chung Ling Soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo"
    title: "Chung Ling Soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo"
    title: "Chung Ling Soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "チャン・リン・スー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B2%AD%EB%A1%84%EC%88%98"
    title: "청롄수"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo"
    title: "Chung Ling Soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo"
    title: "Chung Ling Soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Робинсон, Уильям Элсворт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo"
    title: "Chung Ling Soo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1089576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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