# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-english
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:38:37.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-english"
name: "William English"
slug: "william-english"
description: "William Kirk English was an American computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for Douglas Engelbart at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center. He would later work for Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems."
tagline: "American computer engineer (1929–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_English_in_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-01-27"
deathDate: "2020-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6
  historical:           11.14866933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William English (enginyer)"
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    title: "William English"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_English_(Ingenieur)"
    title: "William English (Ingenieur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_English_(computer_engineer)"
    title: "Bill English (computer engineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_English_(ingeniero)"
    title: "William English (ingeniero)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ビル・イングリッシュ (コンピュータ技術者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_English"
    title: "William English"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill English (inżynier)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_English"
    title: "William English"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%88%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Инглиш, Уильям"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_English_(computer_engineer)"
    title: "Bill English (computer engineer)"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump