# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-whelan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:29:41.872Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-whelan"
name: "Billy Whelan"
slug: "billy-whelan"
description: "William Augustine Whelan, known as Billy Whelan or Liam Whelan, was an Irish footballer who played as an inside-forward. He died at the age of 22, as one of eight Manchester United players who were killed in the Munich air disaster."
tagline: "Irish footballer (1935–1958)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Liam_Whelan.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1935-04-01"
deathDate: "1958-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.65
  momentum:             0.267639902676399
  historical:           16.506344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billi Uilan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Whelan"
    title: "Liam Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Whelan"
    title: "Billy Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Whelan"
    title: "Billy Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Whelan"
    title: "Billy Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Liam Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Whelan"
    title: "Billy Whelan"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Whelan"
    title: "Liam Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Whelan"
    title: "Liam Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Liam Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Liam Whelan"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Whelan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BC"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Whelan"
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    title: "Ліам Вілан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%88%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump