# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-purvis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:22:24.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-purvis"
name: "Al Purvis"
slug: "al-purvis"
description: "Allan Ruggles Purvis was a Canadian ice hockey player who played with the Edmonton Mercurys, a team which represented Canada and won a gold medal at the 1950 World Ice Hockey Championships and also won a gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics. He later became owner of Waterloo Ford, a local car dealership that had been the sponsor of his medal-winning hockey team."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player (1929–2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Jersey_of_the_Edmonton_Mercurys.jpg/330px-Jersey_of_the_Edmonton_Mercurys.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1929-01-09"
deathDate: "2009-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.45
  momentum:             12
  historical:           8.270230666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E7%8F%80%E7%BB%B4%E6%96%AF"
    title: "阿尔·珀维斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purvis"
    title: "Al Purvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purvis"
    title: "Al Purvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "آل پرویس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Purvis"
    title: "Allan Purvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purvis"
    title: "Al Purvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Purvis"
    title: "Al Purvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Purvis"
    title: "Allan Purvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Purvis"
    title: "Allan Purvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2543068"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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