# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:18:29.467Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-jones"
name: "William Jones"
slug: "william-jones"
description: "Sir William Jones was a Welsh philologist, scholar and judge. Born in Westminster, London to Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William and also became a scholar of ancient Indian history. He is known for being one of the earliest scholars after father Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux to assert the kinship of the Indo-European languages. Jones also founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784."
tagline: "Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746–1794)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_William_Jones.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1746-09-28"
deathDate: "1794-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump