# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-wharton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:24:03.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-wharton"
name: "David Wharton"
slug: "david-wharton"
description: "David Lee \"Dave\" Wharton is an American former competition swimmer, 1988 Olympic silver medalist, and former world record-holder in two events. During his competition swimming career, Wharton set world records in both the 200-meter and 400-meter individual medley events."
tagline: "American swimmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1969-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             2.898550724637681
  historical:           8.273074666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Девід Вортон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد وارتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wharton"
    title: "David Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wharton"
    title: "David Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wharton"
    title: "David Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دیوید وارتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wharton"
    title: "David Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wharton"
    title: "David Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wharton"
    title: "David Wharton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1177140"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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