# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-shula
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:10:04.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-shula"
name: "Don Shula"
slug: "don-shula"
description: "Donald Francis Shula was an American football defensive back and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) from 1963 to 1995. The head coach of the Miami Dolphins for most of his career, Shula is the NFL's winningest head coach at 347 career victories and 328 regular season victories. He is regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time."
tagline: "American football player and coach (1930-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don-Shula_USO-Tour-USS-Reagan-Address_July-13-2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1930-01-04"
deathDate: "2020-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.61892666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795677/"
    handle:    "nm0795677"
sources:
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    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shula"
    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shula"
    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shula"
    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shula"
    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shula"
    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A9"
    title: "ドン・シュラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Shula"
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    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шула, Дон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shula"
    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239512"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3665510"
    title: "Don Shula"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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