# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-wreford-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:18:20.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-wreford-brown"
name: "Charles Wreford-Brown"
slug: "charles-wreford-brown"
description: "Charles Wreford-Brown was an English sportsman. He captained the England national football team and was a county cricketer during the Victorian age, and later acted as a sports legislator during the 20th century. Wreford-Brown is usually credited with inventing the term soccer as an abbreviation for association football."
tagline: "English cricketer (1866-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wreford-Brown.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1866-10-09"
deathDate: "1951-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.32
  momentum:             8.698167791706846
  historical:           7.010224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "تشارلز وريفورد برون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wreford-Brown"
    title: "Charles Wreford-Brown"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wreford-Brown"
    title: "Charles Wreford-Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چارلز رفورد-براون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wreford-Brown"
    title: "Charles Wreford-Brown"
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  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8C%C4%81rlzs_Vrefords-Brauns"
    title: "Čārlzs Vrefords-Brauns"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4-%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump