# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-martin-leake
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:37:40.003Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-martin-leake"
name: "William Martin Leake"
slug: "william-martin-leake"
description: "Colonel William Martin Leake, FRS was a British Army officer, spy, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian and writer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He spent much of his career in the British army in the Mediterranean seaports. Leake developed an interest in geography and culture of the regions visited, and authored a number of works, mainly about Greece."
tagline: "British military man, diplomat and antiquary (1777–1860)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Martin_Leake_by_Christian_Albrecht_Jensen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1777-01-14"
deathDate: "1860-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.97
  momentum:             3.25301204819277
  historical:           13.813464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام مارتين لايك"
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    title: "Uilyam Martin Lik"
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    title: "Уилям Мартин Лийк"
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    title: "William Martin Leake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Martin_Leake"
    title: "William Martin Leake"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Martin Leake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Martin_Leake"
    title: "William Martin Leake"
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    title: "William Martin Leake"
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    title: "William Martin Leake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Martin_Leake"
    title: "William Martin Leake"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulielmus_Martinus_Leake"
    title: "Gulielmus Martinus Leake"
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    title: "William Martin Leake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump