# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-fairfax
# Generated: 2026-09-07T22:24:50.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-fairfax"
name: "William Fairfax"
slug: "william-fairfax"
description: "William Fairfax was a British-born American customs official, judge, planter and politician who spent much of his life in the colony of Virginia. Fairfax served as Collector of Customs in Barbados, Chief Justice and governor of the Bahamas; and Customs agent in Marblehead, Massachusetts, before being reassigned to the Colony of Virginia."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colonel_William_Fairfax_(1691%E2%80%931757).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1691"
deathDate: "1757"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.25
  momentum:             0.4336734693877551
  historical:           5.769734666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairfax"
    title: "William Fairfax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "ويليام فيرفاكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairfax_(Politiker)"
    title: "William Fairfax (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Фэрфакс, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairfax"
    title: "William Fairfax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairfax"
    title: "William Fairfax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15452585"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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