# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-buchanan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:17:17.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-buchanan"
name: "David Buchanan"
slug: "david-buchanan"
description: "David Buchanan is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker in the Football League for Leicester City, Northampton Town, Peterborough United, Sunderland and York City, and in non-League football for North Shields, Blyth Spartans and Newcastle Blue Star. He represented the England national youth team in 1979 and earned two caps with the semi-professional national team in 1986."
tagline: "Footballer, born 1962"
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: "1962-06-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.92
  momentum:             11.25
  historical:           5.669330666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Buchanan_(footballer%2C_born_1962)"
    title: "David Buchanan (footballer, born 1962)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد بوكانان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85)"
    title: "ديفيد بوكانان (لاعب كورة قدم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Buchanan_(c%E1%BA%A7u_th%E1%BB%A7_b%C3%B3ng_%C4%91%C3%A1%2C_sinh_n%C4%83m_1962)"
    title: "David Buchanan (cầu thủ bóng đá, sinh năm 1962)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%8C_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_%DB%B1%DB%B9%DB%B6%DB%B2)"
    title: "دیوید بوکانان (بازیکن فوتبال، زاده ۱۹۶۲)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Buchanan"
    title: "David Buchanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16194457"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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