# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-chadwick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:35:38.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-chadwick"
name: "Bill Chadwick"
slug: "bill-chadwick"
description: "William Leroy \"The Big Whistle\" Chadwick was the first US-born referee to serve in the National Hockey League (NHL). Despite being blind in his right eye, his on-ice officiating career spanned the greater part of the 1940s and 1950s, during which he pioneered the system of hand signals for penalties which is now used in all hockey games internationally. He later was a popular broadcaster for the New York Rangers on radio and television."
tagline: "American ice hockey official"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Chadwick_broadcasting.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1915-10-10"
deathDate: "2009-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.68
  momentum:             11.03246753246753
  historical:           5.277790666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Chadwick"
    title: "Bill Chadwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "بيل تشادويك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "بيل تشادويك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Chadwick"
    title: "Bill Chadwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Chadwick"
    title: "Bill Chadwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Chadwick"
    title: "Bill Chadwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2903159"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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