# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-shepherd
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:26:57.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-shepherd"
name: "Don Shepherd"
slug: "don-shepherd"
description: "Donald John Shepherd was a Welsh cricketer, who played for Glamorgan. One of the great county bowlers, he took more first-class wickets – 2,218 – than any other player who never played Test cricket."
tagline: "Welsh cricketer (1927-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Shepherd.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1927-08-12"
deathDate: "2017-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.71
  momentum:             0.9454545454545455
  historical:           5.755005333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ڈان شیفرڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دون شيبرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "دون شيبرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1"
    title: "ডন শেফার্ড"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shepherd"
    title: "Don Shepherd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shepherd"
    title: "Don Shepherd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shepherd"
    title: "Don Shepherd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5293514"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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