# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-poole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:41:16.409Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-poole"
name: "William Poole"
slug: "william-poole"
description: "William Poole, also known as Bill the Butcher, was the leader of the Washington Street Gang, which later became known as the Bowery Boys gang. He was a local leader of the Know Nothing political movement in mid-19th-century New York City."
tagline: "American boxer and a founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys (1821–1855)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Poole.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1821-07-24"
deathDate: "1855-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.949304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Poole"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "ويليام بول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poole"
    title: "William Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poole"
    title: "William Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poole"
    title: "William Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poole_(gangster)"
    title: "William Poole (gangster)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poole"
    title: "William Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poole"
    title: "William Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4346116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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