# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-ernest-henley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:53:18.804Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-ernest-henley"
name: "William Ernest Henley"
slug: "william-ernest-henley"
description: "William Ernest Henley was an English poet, writer, critic, and editor. Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem \"Invictus\". A fixture in London literary circles, the one-legged Henley was an inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver, while his young daughter Margaret Henley inspired J. M. Barrie's choice of the name Wendy for the heroine of his play Peter Pan (1904)."
tagline: "English poet, critic and editor (1849–1903)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Ernest_Henley%60s_Portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1849-08-23"
deathDate: "1903-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump