# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-mcgonagall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:53:57.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-mcgonagall"
name: "William McGonagall"
slug: "william-mcgonagall"
description: "William McGonagall was a Scottish poet and public performer. He gained notoriety as an exceptionally poor poet who exhibited no recognition of or concern for his peers' opinions of his work. McGonagall wrote about 200 poems, including \"The Tay Bridge Disaster\" and \"The Famous Tay Whale\", which are widely regarded as some of the worst in English literature. Groups throughout Scotland engaged him to give recitations from his work, and contemporary descriptions of these performances indicate that many listeners appreciated McGonagall's apparent skill as a comic music hall character. Collections of his verse remain popular, with several volumes available today."
tagline: "Scottish weaver, actor, poet (1825–1902)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_McGonagall_from_the_Poetic_Gems.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1825"
deathDate: "1902-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8714944976925807
  historical:           18.8205
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump