# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-woodville-rockhill
# Generated: 2026-08-16T00:43:34.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-woodville-rockhill"
name: "William Woodville Rockhill"
slug: "william-woodville-rockhill"
description: "William Woodville Rockhill was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China, the first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading experts on the modern political history of China."
tagline: "American diplomat and Sinologist (1854–1914)"
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birthDate: "1854-04-01"
deathDate: "1914-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump