# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-johnson-mcdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:47:46.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-johnson-mcdonald"
name: "William Johnson McDonald"
slug: "william-johnson-mcdonald"
description: "William Johnson McDonald was a Paris, Texas banker who left $850,000 to the University of Texas System to endow an astronomical observatory."
tagline: "American banker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Johnson_McDonald.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1844-12-21"
deathDate: "1926-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.42
  momentum:             7.341269841269842
  historical:           5.004752
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام جونسون مكدونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Johnson_McDonald"
    title: "William Johnson McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Johnson_McDonald"
    title: "William Johnson McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Johnson_McDonald"
    title: "William Johnson McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%E9%80%8A%C2%B7%E9%BA%A6%E5%85%8B%E5%94%90%E7%BA%B3"
    title: "威廉·约翰逊·麦克唐纳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8013695"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump