# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-linighan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:16:22.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-linighan"
name: "Brian Linighan"
slug: "brian-linighan"
description: "Brian Linighan is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. He started his career at Sheffield Wednesday, making just one appearance on 11 January 1994 and was sold to Bury in 1998. After that, he played for non-league sides Gainsborough Trinity, Worksop Town and Whitby Town. He is the younger brother of former Arsenal defender Andy Linighan and former Ipswich Town defender David Linighan, and has a twin brother John. Their father, also named Brian Linighan, was himself a professional footballer."
tagline: "English footballer (born 1973)"
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: "1973-11-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.2
  momentum:             15.88495575221239
  historical:           3.071094666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D9%86"
    title: "برين لاينغن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "بريان لينيجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Linighan"
    title: "Brian Linighan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4964508"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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