# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-furniss
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:38:22.715Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-furniss"
name: "Bruce Furniss"
slug: "bruce-furniss"
description: "Bruce MacFarlane Furniss is an American former amateur competition swimmer, Olympic double gold medalist, and ten-time world record-holder in four events. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, he won the Men's 200-meter Freestyle and was a member of the winning U.S. team in the Men's 4×200-meter Freestyle Relay, both in world record time. Furniss broke ten world and nineteen American records, and won eleven Amateur Athletic Union and six NCAA titles."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champions, former world record-holder"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Furniss.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1957-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.25
  momentum:             0.9463722397476341
  historical:           13.94582533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "布鲁斯·弗尼斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Furniss"
    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Furniss"
    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بروس فارنیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Furniss"
    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Furniss"
    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "ברוס פורניס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Furniss"
    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Furniss"
    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Furniss"
    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Furniss"
    title: "Bruce Furniss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bruce Furniss"
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    title: "Bruce Furniss"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8E%D1%81_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D1%81"
    title: "Брюс Фернісс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q991648"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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