# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-henry-sleeman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:40:01.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-henry-sleeman"
name: "William Henry Sleeman"
slug: "william-henry-sleeman"
description: "Sir William Henry Sleeman was a British officer and administrator in Company-ruled India, best known for his leading role in the Anti-Thuggee Campaign of the 1830s against what he perceived as a pan-Indian fraternity of ritual stranglers. Sleeman served as General Superintendent of the Thuggee Department from 1835 to 1855 and published his main work on thuggee, entitled Ramaseeana, in 1836. His writings served as the foundation for the colonial-era representation of thuggee and formed the basis of Philip Meadows Taylor's 1839 novel Confessions of a Thug."
tagline: "British colonial administrator (1788-1856)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William-Henry-Sleeman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1788-08-08"
deathDate: "1856-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.83
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.307872
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump