# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sears
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:58:39.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sears"
name: "William Sears"
slug: "william-sears"
description: "William Bernard Sears was an American writer and a popular television and radio personality in various shows culminating in the 1950s with In the Park but left television popularity to promote the Baháʼí Faith in Africa and embarked on a lifelong service to the religion, for some 35 years as Hand of the Cause, the highest institution of the religion he could be appointed to. He wrote many books about the religion, with Thief in the Night and God Loves Laughter being his most popular."
tagline: "Hand of the Cause (1911–1992)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/William-sears.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-03-28"
deathDate: "1992-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.16
  momentum:             22.27019498607243
  historical:           7.02232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3510479"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B2_(%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "ويليام سيرز (بهائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "ويليام سيارس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sears_(Bahai)"
    title: "William Sears (Bahai)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sears_(Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD)"
    title: "William Sears (Baháʼí)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sears"
    title: "William Sears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B2_(%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C)"
    title: "ویلیام سیرز (بهائی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B7%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Сирз, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2580527"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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