# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-s-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:19:56.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-s-williams"
name: "William S. Williams"
slug: "william-s-williams"
description: "William Sherley \"Old Bill\" Williams was a noted mountain man and frontiersman, known as Lone Elk to the Native Americans. Fluent in several languages, Williams served as an interpreter for the government and led several expeditions to the West. He married into the Osage Nation, having two children, each of whom married John Allen Mathews."
tagline: "American frontiersman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Old_Bill_Williams_statue_in_Williams_Arizona.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1787-01-03"
deathDate: "1849"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.33
  momentum:             4.311377245508981
  historical:           5.030924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bill_Williams"
    title: "Old Bill Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bill_Williams"
    title: "Old Bill Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bill_Williams"
    title: "Old Bill Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_%22Old_Bill%22_Williams"
    title: "William \"Old Bill\" Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sherley_Williams"
    title: "William Sherley Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018031"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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