# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-linighan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:00:42.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-linighan"
name: "David Linighan"
slug: "david-linighan"
description: "David Linighan is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender from 1982 until 2002."
tagline: "English footballer (born 1965)"
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: "1965-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.38
  momentum:             2.406639004149378
  historical:           3.944097333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديڤيد لينيجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Linighan"
    title: "David Linighan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Linighan"
    title: "David Linighan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Linighan"
    title: "David Linighan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5236644"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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