# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-forrester
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:04.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-forrester"
name: "Bill Forrester"
slug: "bill-forrester"
description: "William Ronald Forrester Jr. is an American former competition swimmer, who swam for Auburn University, a July, 1976 Montreal Olympic medalist in the 200-meter butterfly, and a former world record-holder. Forrester won three gold and two bronze medals at the world championships in 1975 and 1978. After retiring from swim competition, he worked as an age-group coach for over 30 years, first coaching in a summer league, and then founding the Georgia Coastal Aquatic Team (GCAT) in 1994."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist, world champion, former world record-holder"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Gregg%2C_Mike_Bruner%2C_Bill_Forrester_1976_Olympics.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1957-12-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.8
  momentum:             18.30275229357798
  historical:           10.00522
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Білл Форрестер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "بيل فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forrester"
    title: "Bill Forrester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forrester"
    title: "Bill Forrester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forrester"
    title: "Bill Forrester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "بیل فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forrester"
    title: "Bill Forrester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8"
    title: "ביל פורסטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forrester"
    title: "Bill Forrester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forrester"
    title: "Bill Forrester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forrester"
    title: "Bill Forrester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862104"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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