# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-leonard-hunt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:00:02.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-leonard-hunt"
name: "William Leonard Hunt"
slug: "william-leonard-hunt"
description: "William Leonard Hunt, also known by the stage name The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor, as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot and survive. He also published under the name Guillermo Antonio Farini."
tagline: "Canadian circus performer (1838–1929)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Krao_by_Downey-crop.jpg/330px-Krao_by_Downey-crop.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1838-06-10"
deathDate: "1929-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.68
  momentum:             15.26385224274406
  historical:           6.561341333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Grande_Farini"
    title: "O Grande Farini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farini"
    title: "Farini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ويليام ليونارد هنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Hunt"
    title: "William Leonard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Hunt"
    title: "William Leonard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Hunt"
    title: "William Leonard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Hunt"
    title: "William Leonard Hunt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014494"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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