# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-somerville-q8018611
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:39:29.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-somerville-q8018611"
name: "William Somerville"
slug: "william-somerville-q8018611"
description: "William Somerville FRS FRSE FLS LRCP was a Scottish physician and inspector of the Army Medical Board. He was the husband of eminent mathematician and scientist Mary Somerville and father of four."
tagline: "British physician (1771-1860)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Somerville_(physician).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1771-04-22"
deathDate: "1860-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.02
  momentum:             9.23076923076923
  historical:           2.202772
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Somerville_(physician)"
    title: "William Somerville (physician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Somerville_(daktari)"
    title: "William Somerville (daktari)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018611"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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