# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cliff-branch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:45:17.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cliff-branch"
name: "Cliff Branch"
slug: "cliff-branch"
description: "Clifford Branch Jr. was an American professional football wide receiver who played for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders during his entire 14-year National Football League (NFL) career. He won three NFL championships with the Raiders in Super Bowl XI, XV, and XVIII. He was selected by the Raiders in the fourth round of the 1972 NFL draft after playing college football for the Colorado Buffaloes. He was posthumously elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2022."
tagline: "American football player (1948–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cliff_Branch_(2011).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1948-08-01"
deathDate: "2019-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.48
  momentum:             0.720524017467249
  historical:           8.136974666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Cliff Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4"
    title: "كليف برانش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4"
    title: "كليف برانش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Branch"
    title: "Cliff Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Branch"
    title: "Cliff Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Branch"
    title: "Cliff Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Branch"
    title: "Cliff Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Branch"
    title: "Cliff Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Branch"
    title: "Cliff Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1101091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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