# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-henry-jackson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:22:34.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-henry-jackson"
name: "William Henry Jackson"
slug: "william-henry-jackson"
description: "William Henry Jackson was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. He was a great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of America's national symbol Uncle Sam. He was the great-grandfather of cartoonist Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead comics."
tagline: "American photographer and painter (1843-1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jackson_1862.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1843-04-04"
deathDate: "1942-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.06
  momentum:             3.858727378867485
  historical:           10.55213066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Henry Jackson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Jackson"
    title: "William Henry Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Jackson"
    title: "William Henry Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Jackson"
    title: "William Henry Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Jackson"
    title: "William Henry Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ویلیام هنری جکسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Jackson"
    title: "William Henry Jackson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Jackson"
    title: "William Henry Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джексон, Уильям Генри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump