# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-wales
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:52:45.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-wales"
name: "William Wales"
slug: "william-wales"
description: "William Wales was a British mathematician and astronomer who sailed on Captain Cook's second voyage of discovery, then became Master of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital and a Fellow of the Royal Society."
tagline: "British astronomer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1734"
deathDate: "1798-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.32
  momentum:             1.047120418848167
  historical:           5.474262666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wales"
    title: "William Wales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "وليام ويلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wales"
    title: "William Wales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wales"
    title: "William Wales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wales_(astronomer)"
    title: "William Wales (astronomer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wales"
    title: "William Wales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432189"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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