# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-poy
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:26:08.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-poy"
name: "William Poy"
slug: "william-poy"
description: "William George Poy, MM was an Australian-born Canadian civil servant and businessman of Chinese descent. He served with the Royal Hong Kong Regiment during World War II as a Lance Corporal messenger and worked for the Canadian Trade Commission in Hong Kong. He was awarded the Military Medal for his service in Hong Kong."
tagline: "Canadian businessman (1907–2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1907"
deathDate: "2002-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.408208
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poy"
    title: "William Poy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8D%E8%8B%B1%E6%89%8D"
    title: "伍英才"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8017050"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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