# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-penn-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:55:56.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-penn-brooks"
name: "William Penn Brooks"
slug: "william-penn-brooks"
description: "William Penn Brooks was an American agricultural scientist, who worked as a foreign advisor in Meiji era Japan during the colonization project for Hokkaidō. He was the eighth president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Brooks is remembered as one of six Founders of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity in 1873."
tagline: "American agronomist, botanist and college president (1851–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Penn_Brooks%2C_a_Founder_of_Phi_Sigma_Kappa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1851-11-19"
deathDate: "1938-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.3
  momentum:             1.032258064516129
  historical:           4.806156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام بي بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام بى بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Brooks"
    title: "William P. Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn_Brooks"
    title: "William Penn Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ウィリアム・ブルックス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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