# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-kempe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:44:35.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-kempe"
name: "William Kempe"
slug: "william-kempe"
description: "William Kempe, commonly referred to as Will Kemp, was an English actor and dancer who specialised in comic roles. He was best known as one of the original stage actors in early dramas by William Shakespeare, and roles associated with his name may have included the comic creation Falstaff. His contemporaries considered him to be a successor to the great clown of the previous generation, Richard Tarlton."
tagline: "English actor and dancer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Will_Kemp_Elizabethan_Clown_Jig.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1560"
deathDate: "1603"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.47
  momentum:             0.1133297355639504
  historical:           9.200797333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 246
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%BE%DB%92"
    title: "ولیم کیمپے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kempe"
    title: "William Kempe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kempe"
    title: "William Kempe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kempe"
    title: "William Kempe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kempe"
    title: "William Kempe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kempe"
    title: "William Kempe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kemp"
    title: "William Kemp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kempe"
    title: "William Kempe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Кемп, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BF"
    title: "Вільям Кемп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2028014"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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