# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-frederick-purcell
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:35.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-frederick-purcell"
name: "William Frederick Purcell"
slug: "william-frederick-purcell"
description: "William Frederick Purcell was an English-born South African arachnologist and zoologist. He is regarded as being the founder of modern araneology in South Africa."
tagline: "South African biologist (1866–1919)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/William_Frederick_Purcell00.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1866"
deathDate: "1919"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.375
  historical:           8.535817333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
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    title: "وليام فريدريك بورسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Purcell"
    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Purcell"
    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Purcell"
    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Purcell"
    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Purcell"
    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Purcell"
    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Purcell"
    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Purcell"
    title: "William Frederick Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568631"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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