# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-wakefield
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:56:41.306Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-wakefield"
name: "William Wakefield"
slug: "william-wakefield"
description: "Colonel William Hayward Wakefield was an English officer of the British Auxiliary Legion, and the leader of the second New Zealand Company's first colonising expedition to New Zealand; one of the founders of Wellington city. As a leader, he attracted much controversy."
tagline: "Early New Zealand settler (1801–1848)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mr_William_Wakefield_sketched_in_the_Court_of_Kings_Bench_upon_being_brought_up_by_Habeas_Corpus_from_Lancaster_Castle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1801-08-08"
deathDate: "1848-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.17
  momentum:             1.585903083700441
  historical:           3.276134666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hayward_Wakefield"
    title: "William Hayward Wakefield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wakefield"
    title: "William Wakefield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wakefield"
    title: "William Wakefield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2579164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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