# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-yeager
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:02:09.452Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-yeager"
name: "William Yeager"
slug: "william-yeager"
description: "William \"Bill\" Yeager  is an American engineer. He is an inventor of a packet-switched, \"Ships in the Night\", multiple-protocol router in 1981."
tagline: "American engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Yeager.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.5
  momentum:             3.811475409836067
  historical:           5.945465333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yeager"
    title: "William Yeager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام يياغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام يياجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yeager"
    title: "William Yeager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yeager"
    title: "William Yeager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yeager"
    title: "William Yeager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yeager"
    title: "William Yeager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2581146"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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