# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-homan-thorpe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:18:52.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-homan-thorpe"
name: "William Homan Thorpe"
slug: "william-homan-thorpe"
description: "William Homan Thorpe FRS was a British zoologist, ethologist and ornithologist who was Professor of Animal Ethology at the University of Cambridge. Together with Nikolaas Tinbergen, Patrick Bateson and Robert Hinde, Thorpe contributed to the growth and acceptance of behavioural biology in Great Britain."
tagline: "British ethnologist (1902–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WH_Thorpe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1902-04-01"
deathDate: "1986-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.471562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Homan Thorpe"
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    title: "ويليام هومان ثورپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Thorpe"
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    title: "William Homan Thorpe"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Homan_Thorpe"
    title: "William Homan Thorpe"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump