# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-tennant-q8019253
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:43:47.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-tennant-q8019253"
name: "William Tennant"
slug: "william-tennant-q8019253"
description: "Admiral Sir William George Tennant was a British naval officer. He was lauded for overseeing the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, when she searched for German capital ships in the Atlantic."
tagline: "Royal Navy admiral (1890-1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vice_Admiral_Tennant_1945_IWM_A_29072.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1890-01-02"
deathDate: "1963-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.63
  momentum:             3.702979970688813
  historical:           5.10098
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tennant_(Royal_Navy_officer)"
    title: "William Tennant (Royal Navy officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_(%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%B1_%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C)"
    title: "ویلیام تنانت (افسر نیروی دریایی سلطنتی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tennant"
    title: "William Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tennant"
    title: "William Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_George_Tennant"
    title: "William George Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8019253"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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