# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-norwood-potter
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:25:26.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-norwood-potter"
name: "William Norwood Potter"
slug: "william-norwood-potter"
description: "William Norwood Potter was an English chess master and writer. He is primarily remembered for the quality of his chess journalism, and for his association with Wilhelm Steinitz, the first winner of a world chess championship match."
tagline: "English chess player (1840-1895)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Potter%2C_William_Norwood_-_DPLA_-_ff13bb6f4327c2888d77c68bde5bef07.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1840-08-27"
deathDate: "1895-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.59
  momentum:             1.549295774647887
  historical:           5.469618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Norwood_Potter"
    title: "William Norwood Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام نورود پوتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Norwood_Potter"
    title: "William Norwood Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Поттер, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Potter"
    title: "William Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viljams_Norv%C5%ABds_Poters"
    title: "Viljams Norvūds Poters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2580133"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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