# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-mcneill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:12:24.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-mcneill"
name: "Billy McNeill"
slug: "billy-mcneill"
description: "William McNeill was a Scottish football player and manager. He had a long association with Celtic, spanning more than sixty years as a player, manager and club ambassador. McNeill captained Celtic's 'Lisbon Lions' to their European Cup victory in 1967 and later spent two spells as the club's manager. As a player and manager, he won 31 major trophies with Celtic."
tagline: "Scottish footballer and manager (1940-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Mcneill_1982-09-28.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: "1940-03-02"
deathDate: "2019-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.54
  momentum:             4.32337107852237
  historical:           20.41110933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McNeill"
    title: "Billy McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McNeill"
    title: "Billy McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy McNeill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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