# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-lyle
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:45:47.969Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-lyle"
name: "Derek Lyle"
slug: "derek-lyle"
description: "Derek Lyle is a Scottish former footballer who played as a striker. Lyle played for Partick Thistle, Queen of the South (two spells), Dundee, Hamilton Academical (two spells), Greenock Morton, Cowdenbeath, Peterhead and Broomhill. Lyle also had loan spells with East Stirlingshire, Stirling Albion, Dunfermline Athletic and the Doonhamers. Lyle's longest time in his career was spent with Queen of the South in Dumfries, where he scored 117 goals in 365 appearances over two spells with the club."
tagline: "Scottish footballer (born 1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Lyle.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1981-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.49
  momentum:             2.432432432432432
  historical:           4.813032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "ديريك لايلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ديريك لايلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Lyle"
    title: "Derek Lyle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Lyle"
    title: "Derek Lyle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Lyle"
    title: "Derek Lyle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3023751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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