# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-mccoy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:46.770Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-mccoy"
name: "William McCoy"
slug: "william-mccoy"
description: "The complement of HMS Bounty, the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure from England in December 1787 and 44 at the time of the mutiny, including her commander Lieutenant William Bligh. All but two of those aboard were Royal Navy personnel; the exceptions were two civilian botanists engaged to supervise the breadfruit plants Bounty was tasked to take from Tahiti to the West Indies. Of the 44 aboard at the time of the mutiny, 19 were set adrift in the ship's launch, while 25, a mixture of mutineers and detainees, remained on board under Fletcher Christian. Bligh led his loyalists 3,500 nautical miles to safety in the open boat, and ultimately back to England. The mutineers divided—most settled on Tahiti, where they were captured by HMS Pandora in 1791 and returned to England for trial, while Christian and eight others evaded discovery on Pitcairn Island."
tagline: "Scottish sailor and mutineer on the HMS Bounty"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/William_Bligh%2C_1775.jpg/330px-William_Bligh%2C_1775.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1763"
deathDate: "1798-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.693702666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy"
    title: "William McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%88%D9%89_(%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B8%D9%85%D9%89)"
    title: "وليام مكوى (بحار من مملكه بريطانيا العظمى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy_(Bounty)"
    title: "William McCoy (Bounty)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy_(Meuterer)"
    title: "William McCoy (Meuterer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy_(mutineer)"
    title: "William McCoy (mutineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy"
    title: "William McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy"
    title: "William McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCoy_(pendahagi)"
    title: "William McCoy (pendahagi)"
    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%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ウィリアム・マッコイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1706661"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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