# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lyons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:33:07.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lyons"
name: "William Lyons"
slug: "william-lyons"
description: "Sir William Lyons, known as \"Mr. Jaguar\", was with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the Second World War."
tagline: "Co-founder of Jaguar Cars (1901–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Lyons.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1901-09-04"
deathDate: "1985-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.666024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Lyons"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyons"
    title: "William Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyons"
    title: "William Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ویلیام لیونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyons"
    title: "William Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyons"
    title: "William Lyons"
    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%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ウィリアム・ライオンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyons"
    title: "William Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1347549"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump