# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-richard-le-fanu
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:56:32.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-richard-le-fanu"
name: "William Richard Le Fanu"
slug: "william-richard-le-fanu"
description: "William Richard Le Fanu was an Irish railway engineer and Commissioner of Public Works. Le Fanu was born at the Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin into a literary family of Huguenot, Irish and English descent."
tagline: "(1816-1894)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1816-02-24"
deathDate: "1894-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           29.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.534701333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  39
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Richard_Le_Fanu"
    title: "William Richard Le Fanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75568282"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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