# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sargant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:02:14.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sargant"
name: "William Sargant"
slug: "william-sargant"
description: "William Walters Sargant was a British psychiatrist who is remembered for the zeal with which he promoted treatments such as psychosurgery, deep sleep treatment, electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy."
tagline: "British psychiatrist (1907–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Walters_Sargant_1947b.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1907-04-24"
deathDate: "1988-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.58
  momentum:             0.3196022727272727
  historical:           6.785641333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3015410/"
    handle:    "nm3015410"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Саргант, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ويليام سارجانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant"
    title: "William Sargant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant"
    title: "William Sargant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant"
    title: "William Sargant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant"
    title: "William Sargant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant"
    title: "William Sargant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018124"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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