# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-r-peers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:11:45.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-r-peers"
name: "William R. Peers"
slug: "william-r-peers"
description: "William Ray Peers was a United States Army general, who is most notable for presiding over the Peers Commission investigation into the Mỹ Lai massacre during the Vietnam War."
tagline: "United States general (1914–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/General_William_R._Peers_(ca._1967).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1914-06-14"
deathDate: "1984-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.5
  momentum:             6.843513339863704
  historical:           5.492298666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Peers"
    title: "William R. Peers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "ويليام آر. پيرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%80%D1%81"
    title: "Уільям Рэй Пірс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7R%C2%B7%E7%9A%AE%E7%88%BE%E6%96%AF"
    title: "威廉·R·皮爾斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Peers"
    title: "William R. Peers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Peers"
    title: "William R. Peers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2580328"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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