# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sharpey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:57:07.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sharpey"
name: "William Sharpey"
slug: "william-sharpey"
description: "William Sharpey FRS FRSE LLD was a Scottish anatomist and physiologist. Sharpey became the outstanding exponent of experimental biology and is described as the \"father of British physiology\"."
tagline: "Scottish physiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Sharpey_3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1802-04-01"
deathDate: "1880-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.362637362637362
  historical:           5.674766666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Sharpey"
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    title: "وليام شاربى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharpey"
    title: "William Sharpey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sharpey"
    title: "William Sharpey"
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    title: "Шарпей, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump