# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-g-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:18:12.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-g-allen"
name: "William G. Allen"
slug: "william-g-allen"
description: "William Gustavus Allen was an African-American academic, intellectual, and lecturer. For a time he co-edited The National Watchman, an abolitionist newspaper. While studying law in Boston he lectured widely on abolition, equality, and integration. He was then appointed a professor of rhetoric and Greek at New-York Central College, the second African-American college professor in the United States. He saw himself as an academic and intellectual."
tagline: "African American abolitionist (1820–1888)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/William_Gustavus_Allen.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1820"
deathDate: "1888-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.77
  momentum:             0.5686274509803922
  historical:           5.086070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William G. Allen"
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    title: "ويليام جوستافوس ألين"
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    title: "ويليام جى. الين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ولیم جی ایلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Allen"
    title: "William G. Allen"
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  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Allen"
    title: "William G. Allen"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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