# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-strickland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:03:37.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-strickland"
name: "Earl Strickland"
slug: "earl-strickland"
description: "Earl Strickland, nicknamed \"Earl the Pearl,\" is an American professional pool player who is considered one of the best nine-ball players of all time. He has won over 100 championship titles and three world titles. In 2006 he was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame. In 1996, Strickland won the largest cash prize to date winning the PCA $1,000,000 Challenge by being the first player to run 10 consecutive racks in a tournament."
tagline: "American pool player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Earl_Strickland.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1961-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.774054666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Strickland"
    title: "Earl Strickland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "إيرل ستريكلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Strickland"
    title: "Earl Strickland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Ерл Стрикленд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89"
    title: "アール・ストリックランド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Strickland"
    title: "Earl Strickland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323427"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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