# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-frederic-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:49:01.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-frederic-edwards"
name: "William Frédéric Edwards"
slug: "william-frederic-edwards"
description: "William Frédéric Edwards (1777–1842) was a French physiologist, of Jamaican background, who was also a pioneer anthropologist. He has been called \"the father of ethnology in France\". He is remembered largely for his principle of the permanency of physical \"types.\" He was also a leader in the new science of \"linguistique\" and proposed a new branch of comparative philology based on pronunciation."
tagline: "French physiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Edwards._Engraving_after_David_D'Angers_Wellcome_L0074159_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1777"
deathDate: "1842"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.51
  momentum:             19.10526315789474
  historical:           6.538157333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edwards"
    title: "William Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "ويليام فريديريك ادواردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Edwards"
    title: "William Frédéric Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Edwards"
    title: "William Frédéric Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederic_Edwards"
    title: "William Frederic Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederic_Edwards"
    title: "William Frederic Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2152782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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