# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-bowerman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:37:39.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-bowerman"
name: "Bill Bowerman"
slug: "bill-bowerman"
description: "William Jay Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers."
tagline: "American runner, track and field coach, and businessman (1911–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Bowerman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1911-02-19"
deathDate: "1999-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.09158386208547828
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Bill Bowerman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump