# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-herbert-sheldon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:07:25.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-herbert-sheldon"
name: "William Herbert Sheldon"
slug: "william-herbert-sheldon"
description: "William Herbert Sheldon, Jr. was an American psychologist, numismatist, and eugenicist. He created the field of somatotype and constitutional psychology that correlate body types with temperament, illustrated by his controversial Ivy League nude posture photos."
tagline: "American psychologist (1898-1977)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/William_Herbert_Sheldon.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1898-11-19"
deathDate: "1977-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             12.49913468241626
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Уилям Шелдън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Herbert Sheldon"
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    title: "William Sheldon"
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    title: "William Sheldon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump