# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-woodville
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:07:38.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-woodville"
name: "William Woodville"
slug: "william-woodville"
description: "William Woodville was an English physician and botanist. Convinced by the work of Edward Jenner, he was among the first to promote vaccination. His four volume book on medical botany published between 1790 and 1794 with 300 illustrations of medicinal plants by James Sowerby was an important reference work for physicians in the nineteenth century with a second edition in 1810 followed by a revision in 1832 by William Jackson Hooker and George Spratt."
tagline: "English botanist (1752-1805)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Woodville._Stipple_engraving_by_W._Bond%2C_1806%2C_after_Wellcome_V0006371.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1752"
deathDate: "1805"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.36
  momentum:             1.204819277108434
  historical:           4.603348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Woodville"
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    title: "William Woodville"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woodville"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Вудвилл, Уильям"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woodville"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167767"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump