# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-williams-pantycelyn
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:22:29.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-williams-pantycelyn"
name: "William Williams Pantycelyn"
slug: "william-williams-pantycelyn"
description: "William Williams, Pantycelyn, also known as William Williams, Williams Pantycelyn or simply Pantycelyn, was generally seen as Wales's premier hymnist. He is also rated among the great literary figures of Wales, as a writer of poetry and prose. In religion he was among the leaders of the 18th-century Welsh Methodist revival, along with the evangelists Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland."
tagline: "Welsh hymnwriter (1717-1791)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Parch._William_Williams%2C_Pant-y-Celyn_(4674719)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1717-02-11"
deathDate: "1791-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.05
  momentum:             4.012738853503185
  historical:           11.225812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump