# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-thomas-walsh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:34.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-thomas-walsh"
name: "William Thomas Walsh"
slug: "william-thomas-walsh"
description: "William Thomas Walsh was an American Catholic historian, author, educator, and violinist. He is best known for popular biographies of Spanish Catholic historical figures and for his 1947 book Our Lady of Fatima, which significantly increased awareness of the Fatima apparitions among American Catholics. He received the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame in 1941. Walsh wrote from a strongly Catholic perspective; his interpretations of Spanish history, particularly regarding the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews, have been both praised in Catholic circles and criticized by some historians for alleged antisemitic bias."
tagline: "American poet"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1891-09-11"
deathDate: "1949-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.86
  momentum:             0.1384083044982699
  historical:           5.477214666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Thomas Walsh"
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    title: "ولیم تھامس والش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Walsh"
    title: "William Thomas Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Walsh"
    title: "William Thomas Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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