# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-anderson-q726841
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:51:26.398Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-anderson-q726841"
name: "Gary Anderson"
slug: "gary-anderson-q726841"
description: "Gary Allan Anderson is a South African former professional American football placekicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 23 seasons. The first South African to appear in an NFL regular season game, he spent the majority of his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers and is also known for his Minnesota Vikings tenure. Anderson earned four Pro Bowl and two first-team All-Pro honors after joining the league in 1982 and was named to the NFL's second All-Decade teams of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the Steelers All-Time Team."
tagline: "American football placekicker (born 1959)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1959-07-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.287084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Anderson_(giocatore_di_football_americano)"
    title: "Gary Anderson (giocatore di football americano)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "غاري أندرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جارى اندرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Anderson"
    title: "Gary Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Anderson_(Footballspieler%2C_1959)"
    title: "Gary Anderson (Footballspieler, 1959)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Anderson_(placekicker)"
    title: "Gary Anderson (placekicker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Allan_Anderson"
    title: "Gary Allan Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Anderson_(kicker)"
    title: "Gary Anderson (kicker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726841"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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