# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esa-pirnes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:00:57.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esa-pirnes"
name: "Esa Pirnes"
slug: "esa-pirnes"
description: "Esa Lasse Juhani Pirnes is a Finnish former professional ice hockey centre. He played most of his career, which lasted from 1995 to 2016, in the Finnish Liiga. He also played 57 games in the National Hockey League with the Los Angeles Kings during the 2003–04 season, after the Kings selected him in the 6th round of the 2003 NHL entry draft. Internationally Pirnes played for the Finnish national team at four World Championships, winning two bronze medals."
tagline: "Finnish ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pirnes_Esa_Suomi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1977-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.71
  momentum:             1.040462427745665
  historical:           8.740209333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81"
    title: "Еса Пірнес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اسا پيرنيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pirnes"
    title: "Esa Pirnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pirnes"
    title: "Esa Pirnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pirnes"
    title: "Esa Pirnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pirnes"
    title: "Esa Pirnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pirnes"
    title: "Esa Pirnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%AD%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Пирнес, Эса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pirnes"
    title: "Esa Pirnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pirnes"
    title: "Esa Pirnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1366658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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