# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:27:41.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-lewis"
name: "Ed Lewis"
slug: "ed-lewis"
description: "Robert Herman Julius Friedrich, better known by the ring name Ed \"Strangler\" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler and trainer. During his wrestling career, which spanned four decades, Lewis was a four-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion and overall recognized officially as a five-time world champion. Considered to be one of the most iconic and recognizable sports stars of the 1920s, often alongside boxer Jack Dempsey and baseball player Babe Ruth, Lewis notably wrestled in over 6,000 matches and lost only 32 of them."
tagline: "American professional wrestler (1890–1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ed_Strangler_Lewis_-_6_Jan_1942_Municipal_Auditorium_Wrestling_Program.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: "1890-06-30"
deathDate: "1966-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.174882666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507145/"
    handle:    "nm0507145"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Эд Льюис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "إد لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اد لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lewis"
    title: "Ed Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lewis_(wrestler)"
    title: "Ed Lewis (wrestler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lewis"
    title: "Ed Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "エド・ルイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Lewis_(wrestler)"
    title: "Ed Lewis (wrestler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1282396"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1611811"
    title: "Ed Lewis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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