# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-skirton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:27:48.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-skirton"
name: "Alan Skirton"
slug: "alan-skirton"
description: "Alan Frederick Graham Skirton was an English professional footballer, who played as a winger, spending the majority of his career at Arsenal. A \"prolific winger\", Skirton was known as the 'Highbury Express' during his seven-year tenure at the North London club."
tagline: "Footballer (1939-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Skirton_for_Bath_City_in_1957.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1939-01-23"
deathDate: "2019-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.006516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alan Skirton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "الان سكيرتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آلن اسکیرتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Skirton"
    title: "Alan Skirton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آلن اسکیرتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "אלן סקירטון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Skirton"
    title: "Alan Skirton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Скертон, Алан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4707781"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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