# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-salesbury
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:14:59.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-salesbury"
name: "William Salesbury"
slug: "william-salesbury"
description: "William Salesbury, also Salusbury, was the leading Welsh scholar of the Renaissance and the principal translator of the 1567 Welsh New Testament."
tagline: "Welsh scholar (1520–1584)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Salesbury_on_the_Translator's_Memorial%3B_Llanelwy_-_St_Asaph%2C_Cymru_07.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1520"
deathDate: "1584"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.072930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Salesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Salesbury"
    title: "William Salesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Salesbury"
    title: "William Salesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%90%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B6%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%92"
    title: "විලියම් සැලිස්බරි"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Salesbury"
    title: "William Salesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Salesbury"
    title: "William Salesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018052"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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