# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-kopay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:40.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-kopay"
name: "David Kopay"
slug: "david-kopay"
description: "David Marquette Kopay is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington Huskies. In 1975, he became one of the first professional athletes to come out as gay."
tagline: "Player of American football"
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: "1942-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.33
  momentum:             12.47637051039697
  historical:           6.415773333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kopay"
    title: "David Kopay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "ديڤيد كوپاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kopay"
    title: "David Kopay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kopay"
    title: "David Kopay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kopay"
    title: "David Kopay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kopay"
    title: "David Kopay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%99"
    title: "דייוויד קופיי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1175505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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