# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-scawen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:35:41.453Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-scawen"
name: "William Scawen"
slug: "william-scawen"
description: "William Scawen (1600–1689) was one of the pioneers in the revival of the Cornish language. He was a politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War."
tagline: "Cornish writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1600"
deathDate: "1689"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.868934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scawen"
    title: "William Scawen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scawen"
    title: "William Scawen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scawen"
    title: "William Scawen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scawen"
    title: "William Scawen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scawen"
    title: "William Scawen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scawen"
    title: "William Scawen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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