# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-willcocks
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:26.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-willcocks"
name: "William Willcocks"
slug: "william-willcocks"
description: "Sir William Willcocks was a British civil engineer during the high point of the British Empire. He was an irrigation engineer who proposed and built the first Aswan Dam, the scale of which had never been attempted previously. He later undertook other major irrigation projects in South Africa and the Ottoman Empire's Arabian territories."
tagline: "British civil engineer (1852–1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_William_Willcocks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1852-09-27"
deathDate: "1932-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.97
  momentum:             0.7870370370370371
  historical:           8.341721333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Willcocks"
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    title: "William Willcocks"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump