# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-shepherd
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:18:32.453Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-shepherd"
name: "David Shepherd"
slug: "david-shepherd"
description: "David Robert Shepherd was a first-class cricketer who played county cricket for Gloucestershire, and later became one of the cricket world's best-known umpires. He stood in 92 Test matches, the last of them in June 2005, the most for any English umpire. He also umpired 172 ODIs, including three consecutive World Cup finals in 1996, 1999 and 2003."
tagline: "Cricket umpire (1940-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/DavidShepherd%28umpire%29Image.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1940-12-27"
deathDate: "2009-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             13.56335432276721
  historical:           6.280064
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump