# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-levitt
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:27:28.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-levitt"
name: "William Levitt"
slug: "william-levitt"
description: "William Jaird Levitt was an American real-estate developer and housing pioneer. As president of Levitt & Sons, he is widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. In 1998 he was named one of Time Magazine's \"100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century.\""
tagline: "American real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Bill_Levitt_poses_with_full-page_newspaper_advertisements_for_Levittown.jpg/330px-Bill_Levitt_poses_with_full-page_newspaper_advertisements_for_Levittown.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1907-02-11"
deathDate: "1994-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.869377333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "威廉·李维特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليام ليفيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Levitt"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levitt"
    title: "William Levitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levitt"
    title: "William Levitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ウィリアム・レヴィット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levitt"
    title: "William Levitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Левитт, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levitt"
    title: "William Levitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levitt"
    title: "William Levitt"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q305645"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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