# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-switzer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:50:35.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-switzer"
name: "Barry Switzer"
slug: "barry-switzer"
description: "Barry Layne Switzer is an American former college and professional football coach. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He won three national championships at Oklahoma, and led the Cowboys to win Super Bowl XXX. He has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history, and is the second of only three head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl: the others are his Cowboys predecessor Jimmy Johnson and Pete Carroll with the Seattle Seahawks."
tagline: "American football player and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barry_Switzer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1937-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.12
  momentum:             17.00606060606061
  historical:           8.094562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842810/"
    handle:    "nm0842810"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%B1"
    title: "بارى سويتزر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barry Switzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer"
    title: "Barry Switzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer"
    title: "Barry Switzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer"
    title: "Barry Switzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer"
    title: "Barry Switzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer"
    title: "Barry Switzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1178311"
    title: "Barry Switzer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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