# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-muir
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:29:16.190Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-muir"
name: "William Muir"
slug: "william-muir"
description: "Sir William Muir was a Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator. He served as Lieutenant Governor of the North-Western Provinces of British India from 1868 and as Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1885 to 1903."
tagline: "Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator (1819–1905)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_William_Muir.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1819-04-27"
deathDate: "1905-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6870860927152318
  historical:           16.71314266666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump