# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-playfair
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:39:31.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-playfair"
name: "William Playfair"
slug: "william-playfair"
description: "William Playfair was a Scottish engineer and political economist. The founder of graphical methods of statistics, Playfair invented several types of diagrams: in 1786 he introduced the line, area and bar chart of economic data, and in 1801 he published what were likely the first pie chart and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations. Playfair has been reported to have been a secret agent for the British Government, although this has sometimes been a subject of controversy."
tagline: "British mathematician, engineer and political economist (1759-1823)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1759-09-22"
deathDate: "1823-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           19.071388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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