# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-john-wills
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:34:16.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-john-wills"
name: "William John Wills"
slug: "william-john-wills"
description: "William John Wills was a British surveyor who also trained as a surgeon. He was the second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria. He and the expedition leader Robert O'Hara Burke both died of exhaustion on the expedition's return journey."
tagline: "British surveyor (1834–1861)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_John_Wills.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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birthDate: "1834-01-05"
deathDate: "1861"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump