# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-light
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:42:39.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-light"
name: "William Light"
slug: "william-light"
description: "William Light was a British military officer and colonial administrator. He was the first Surveyor-General of the new British Province of South Australia, known for choosing the site of the colony's capital, Adelaide, and for designing the layout of its streets, six city squares, gardens and the figure-eight Adelaide Park Lands, in a plan later sometimes referred to as Light's Vision."
tagline: "Surveyor-General of South Australia who designed Adelaide's street plan in 1836 (1786–1839)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_col_william_light.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Designers"
  slug: "designers"
profileType:
  name: "Designer"
  slug: "designer"
birthDate: "1786-04-27"
deathDate: "1839-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.113826666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Лайт, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light"
    title: "William Light"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BC_%CE%9B%CE%AC%CE%B9%CF%84"
    title: "Γουίλιαμ Λάιτ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light"
    title: "William Light"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light"
    title: "William Light"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light"
    title: "William Light"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light"
    title: "William Light"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88"
    title: "ウィリアム・ライト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light"
    title: "William Light"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2067103"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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