# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-henry-sheppard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:39:52.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-henry-sheppard"
name: "William Henry Sheppard"
slug: "william-henry-sheppard"
description: "William Henry Sheppard was one of the earliest African Americans to become a missionary for the Presbyterian Church. He spent 20 years in Africa, primarily in and around the Congo Free State, and is best known for his efforts to publicize the atrocities committed against the Kuba and other Congolese peoples by King Leopold II's Force Publique."
tagline: "African American missionary for the Presbyterian Church (1865–1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WHS_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1865-03-08"
deathDate: "1927-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.09
  momentum:             0.0893854748603352
  historical:           7.032508
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Henry Sheppard"
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    title: "William Henry Sheppard"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Sheppard"
    title: "William Henry Sheppard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Sheppard"
    title: "William Henry Sheppard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Sheppard"
    title: "William Henry Sheppard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Sheppard"
    title: "William Henry Sheppard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332803"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump