# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-zeckendorf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:19:09.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-zeckendorf"
name: "William Zeckendorf"
slug: "william-zeckendorf"
description: "William Zeckendorf Sr. was a prominent American real estate developer. Through his development company Webb and Knapp — for which he began working in 1938 and which he purchased in 1949 — he developed a significant portion of the New York City urban landscape. Architects I. M. Pei and Le Corbusier designed structures for Zeckendorf's development projects."
tagline: "American real estate developer (1905–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Zeckendorf_NYWTS_closeupcrop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1905-06-30"
deathDate: "1976-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.36
  momentum:             0.8174386920980924
  historical:           5.738090666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%96%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A3"
    title: "ויליאם זקנדורף"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zeckendorf"
    title: "William Zeckendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zeckendorf"
    title: "William Zeckendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zeckendorf"
    title: "William Zeckendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zeckendorf"
    title: "William Zeckendorf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84_%EC%A0%9C%EC%BC%84%EB%8F%84%ED%94%84"
    title: "윌리엄 제켄도프"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q903119"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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