# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-cornelius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:18:16.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-cornelius"
name: "Charles Cornelius"
slug: "charles-cornelius"
description: "Charles Cornelius is an Olympic Medalist and Former Indian Hockey Goal Keeper who represented the Indian national hockey team in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and 1973 Hockey World Cup. Started his Hockey career as coach for the Punjab Hockey Team in the year 1977 and retired as Administrator-Officer on Special Duty in the year 2001.Selected as a special trainer for hockey goal keeping by the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) in the Year 1980.\nServed as the national hockey coach for Sports Authority of India and has trained both the junior and the senior men's hockey teams.\nBeen a selection committee member for the junior and senior national hockey teams since 1980.\nSuccessfully dealt with the state govt and state sports councils, Snipes field stations, and Nehru Yuvak Kendras on behalf of NIS as a zonal officer for the South Zone for more than 15 yrs.\nIn addition, overseen and managed the field wing coaches of the jurisdictions with adequate first hand experience about the field work.\nFunctioned as one of the administrators for the Asian Games in the year 1982, SAF Games in the year 1995, and many other international tournaments held in India."
tagline: "Indian field hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Cornelius.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1945-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.691128148959474
  historical:           6.336609333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "چارلس کارنیلیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%83%D1%81%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7"
    title: "Корнелиус, Чарльз"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cornelius"
    title: "Charles Cornelius"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B7_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Чарлз Корнеліус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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