# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-wilkie-q138627
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:49:21.592Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-wilkie-q138627"
name: "David Wilkie"
slug: "david-wilkie-q138627"
description: "David Andrew Wilkie was a Scottish swimmer who was the Olympic 200m breaststroke champion in 1976, the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960, and the first British man to do so since Henry Taylor in 1908. He is the only person to have held British, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time. Wilkie, a member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame, has been described as Scotland's greatest and Britain's finest swimmer. Fellow Olympic breaststroke gold medallist Duncan Goodhew considered him an \"extraordinary talent\" and \"one of Britain's greatest ever athletes\"."
tagline: "British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Wilkie_(swimmer).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1954-03-08"
deathDate: "2024-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.9193857965451
  historical:           18.26487733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "戴维·威尔基"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دايفيد ويلكى (سباح من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkie_(Schwimmer)"
    title: "David Wilkie (Schwimmer)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkie_(swimmer)"
    title: "David Wilkie (swimmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkie_(nadador)"
    title: "David Wilkie (nadador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkie"
    title: "David Wilkie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkie_(igerilaria)"
    title: "David Wilkie (igerilaria)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Wilkie (nuotatore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkie_(Swemmsportler)"
    title: "David Wilkie (Swemmsportler)"
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    title: "David Wilkie (zwemmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Andrew_Wilkie"
    title: "David Andrew Wilkie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Wilkie (pływak)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Wilkie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Wilkie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Девід Вілкі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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