# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-mulloy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:46:59.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-mulloy"
name: "William Mulloy"
slug: "william-mulloy"
description: "William Thomas Mulloy Jr. was an American anthropologist. While his early research established him as a formidable scholar and skillful fieldwork supervisor in the province of North American Plains archaeology, he is best known for his studies of Polynesian prehistory, especially his investigations into the production, transportation and erection of the monumental statuary on Rapa Nui known as moai."
tagline: "American anthropologist (1917–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mulloy_akivi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-05-03"
deathDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.89
  momentum:             9.107142857142854
  historical:           4.610044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ويليام مولوى (باحث انثروبولوجيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mulloy"
    title: "William Mulloy"
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    title: "ויליאם מולוי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump