# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-pepper
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:43:46.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-pepper"
name: "William Pepper"
slug: "william-pepper"
description: "William Pepper Jr., was an American physician and medical educator, and the eleventh provost of the University of Pennsylvania, from 1881 to 1894. He was an advocate for the establishment of a university affiliated hospital and led the finance and building committees for the construction of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in 1874. As provost, he oversaw a major expansion of the University including the construction of 13 campus buildings, the addition of the Wharton School of Business, and eleven new departments. In 1891, he founded the Free Library of Philadelphia."
tagline: "United States physician (1843–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Pepper.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1843-08-21"
deathDate: "1898-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.341901333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Пеппер, Вильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "وليام بيبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%BE%D9%BE%D8%B1"
    title: "ویلیام پپر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pepper"
    title: "William Pepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pepper"
    title: "William Pepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pepper"
    title: "William Pepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pepper"
    title: "William Pepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9374867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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