# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-eschmeyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:39:45.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-eschmeyer"
name: "William Eschmeyer"
slug: "william-eschmeyer"
description: "William Neil Eschmeyer was an American ichthyologist. He was the founder and developer of the database and reference work Catalog of Fishes, hosted by the California Academy of Sciences and available both on-line and in print."
tagline: "American ichthyologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1939-02-11"
deathDate: "2024-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.79
  momentum:             7.647058823529411
  historical:           8.076638666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "威廉·尼爾·埃施邁爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Neil_Eschmeyer"
    title: "William Neil Eschmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_N._Eschmeyer"
    title: "William N. Eschmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_N._Eschmeyer"
    title: "William N. Eschmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Neil_Eschmeyer"
    title: "William Neil Eschmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eschmeyer"
    title: "William Eschmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_N._Eschmeyer"
    title: "William N. Eschmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_N._Eschmeyer"
    title: "William N. Eschmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eschmeyer"
    title: "William Eschmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9374821"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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