# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-wharton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:18:27.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-wharton"
name: "Arthur Wharton"
slug: "arthur-wharton"
description: "Arthur Wharton was a British footballer. He is widely considered to be the first black professional footballer in the world. Though not the first black player outright – the amateurs Robert Walker, of Queen's Park, and Scotland international player, Andrew Watson, predate him – Wharton may have been the first black professional and the first to play in the Football League."
tagline: "Ghanaian footballer (1865-1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Wharton_c1896.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: "1865-10-28"
deathDate: "1930-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.99
  momentum:             1.368836291913215
  historical:           9.103752
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Arthur Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آرثر وارتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آرثر وارتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%BD"
    title: "Артър Уортън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wharton"
    title: "Arthur Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wharton"
    title: "Arthur Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wharton"
    title: "Arthur Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wharton"
    title: "Arthur Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wharton"
    title: "Arthur Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wharton"
    title: "Arthur Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Артур Вортон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2865387"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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