# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-fairbairn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:22.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-fairbairn"
name: "William Fairbairn"
slug: "william-fairbairn"
description: "Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder. In 1854 he succeeded George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson to become the third president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers."
tagline: "Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fairbairn_William.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1789-02-19"
deathDate: "1874-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.57
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           9.816344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "وليام فيربيرن"
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    title: "Уільям Фейрберн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Fairbairn"
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    title: "William Fairbairn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairbairn"
    title: "William Fairbairn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairbairn"
    title: "William Fairbairn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairbairn"
    title: "William Fairbairn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairbairn"
    title: "William Fairbairn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairbairn"
    title: "William Fairbairn"
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    title: "Фейрберн, Уильям"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump