# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-falconer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:50:20.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-falconer"
name: "William Falconer"
slug: "william-falconer"
description: "William Falconer was a Scottish epic poet concerned mainly with life at sea. He also compiled a dictionary of maritime terms."
tagline: "British writer and poet"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/William_Falconer_b1744.jpg/330px-William_Falconer_b1744.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1732-02-21"
deathDate: "1769"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.48
  momentum:             2.388888888888889
  historical:           9.608028000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Falconer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام فالكونر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام فالكونر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Falconer"
    title: "William Falconer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Falconer_(poet)"
    title: "William Falconer (poet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Falconer_(1732-1769)"
    title: "William Falconer (1732-1769)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Falconer"
    title: "William Falconer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Falconer"
    title: "William Falconer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Falconer"
    title: "William Falconer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Фальконер, Вильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Falconer_(1732%E2%80%931769)"
    title: "William Falconer (1732–1769)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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