# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-whelan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:08:11.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-whelan"
name: "Dave Whelan"
slug: "dave-whelan"
description: "David Whelan is an English businessman and former footballer. During his football career, he played for Blackburn Rovers and Crewe Alexandra. Whelan is the former owner of club Wigan Athletic, having also been the chairman of the club for twenty years, before passing the position over to his grandson, David Sharpe, who eventually passed the ownership over to International Entertainment Corporation."
tagline: "English footballer (born 1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_whelan_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1936-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.33
  momentum:             7.656241582783757
  historical:           6.672149333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B4%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E6%83%A0%E8%98%AD"
    title: "戴夫·惠蘭"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديف ويلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديف ويلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Whelan"
    title: "Dave Whelan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B8%8C_%EC%9B%B0%EB%9F%B0"
    title: "데이브 웰런"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B2"
    title: "Уилан, Дейв"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B2_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Дейв Вілан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4469987"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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