# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-garrison
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:52:18.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-garrison"
name: "William Garrison"
slug: "william-garrison"
description: "William Louis Garrison was an American geographer, transportation analyst and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the Department of Geography, University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the \"quantitative revolution\" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems. As such, he was one of the founders of regional science. Many of his students went on to become noted professors themselves, including: Brian Berry, Ronald Boyce, Duane Marble, Richard Morrill, John Nystuen, William Bunge, Michael Dacey, Arthur Getis, and Waldo Tobler. His transportation work focused on innovation, the deployment of modes and logistic curves, alternative vehicles and the future of the car."
tagline: "American geographer & academic"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/WilliamLouisGarrison.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-04-20"
deathDate: "2015-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.138553333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Garrison_(geographer)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Garrison"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump