# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-halse-rivers-rivers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:57:53.114Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-halse-rivers-rivers"
name: "William Halse Rivers Rivers"
slug: "william-halse-rivers-rivers"
description: "William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock. Rivers' most famous patient was the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death."
tagline: "English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (1864-1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/W.H.R.Rivers_(Maull).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1864-03-12"
deathDate: "1922-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump