# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-moorcroft
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:28:10.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-moorcroft"
name: "William Moorcroft"
slug: "william-moorcroft"
description: "William Moorcroft was an English veterinarian and explorer employed by the East India Company. Moorcroft travelled extensively throughout the Himalayas, Tibet and Central Asia, eventually reaching Bukhara, in present-day Uzbekistan."
tagline: "18th/19th-century English traveler"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/William_Moorcroft_and_Hyder_Young_Hearsey.jpg/330px-William_Moorcroft_and_Hyder_Young_Hearsey.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1767"
deathDate: "1825-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.16
  momentum:             2.457227138643068
  historical:           6.350073333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA"
    title: "وليام موركروفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moorcroft_(explorer)"
    title: "William Moorcroft (explorer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moorcroft"
    title: "William Moorcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moorcroft"
    title: "William Moorcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moorcroft"
    title: "William Moorcroft"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E7%A9%86%E5%85%8B%E7%BD%97%E5%A4%AB%E7%89%B9"
    title: "威廉·穆克罗夫特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9096057"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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