# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sharp
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:50:33.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sharp"
name: "William Sharp"
slug: "william-sharp"
description: "William Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton."
tagline: "Scottish writer (1855–1905)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Sharp_(writer)_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_19028.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1855-09-12"
deathDate: "1905-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.37
  momentum:             5.70125266451281
  historical:           14.90651866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp_(Autor)"
    title: "William Sharp (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp_(writer)"
    title: "William Sharp (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp"
    title: "William Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp"
    title: "William Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A4_(%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8)"
    title: "ויליאם שארפ (סופר)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp"
    title: "William Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp"
    title: "William Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97_(%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "ウィリアム・シャープ (作家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp"
    title: "William Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp_(pisarz)"
    title: "William Sharp (pisarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp"
    title: "William Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BF%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_(%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80)"
    title: "Шарп, Уильям (литератор)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharp"
    title: "William Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Sharp_(writer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Sharp_(escritor)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Sharp"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/51ce82bc-60ae-46c3-b7b7-1c41ddd86718"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1575288"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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