# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-hay-macnaghten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:14:08.304Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-hay-macnaghten"
name: "William Hay Macnaghten"
slug: "william-hay-macnaghten"
description: "Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet, was a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First Anglo-Afghan War. He was also briefly appointed the governor of the Bombay Presidency, but he was unable to assume his post, having been killed by Wazir Akbar Khan in Afghanistan."
tagline: "British civil servant (1793-1841)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prison_Sketches._Comprising_portraits_of_the_Cabul_prisoners%2C_and_other_subjects_(BM_1970%2C0527.2.3).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1793-08-24"
deathDate: "1841-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.599526066350711
  historical:           10.30191066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Hay Macnaghten"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hay_Macnaghten"
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    title: "William Hay Macnaghten"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump