# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-van-cleaf
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:14.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-van-cleaf"
name: "George Van Cleaf"
slug: "george-van-cleaf"
description: "George W. Van Cleaf was an American water polo player and swimmer who represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, winning a team gold medal in the water polo competition. An accomplished member of the New York Athletic Club, and national champion in the one-mile swim in 1900, Van Cleaf died of typhoid in January 1905 from swimming in the contaminated water in the man-made pool at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics."
tagline: "American swimmer and water polo player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flag_of_the_United_States_(1896%E2%80%931908).svg?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: "1879-10-08"
deathDate: "1905-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             4.563106796116505
  historical:           10.27206666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Джордж ван Кліф"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%84%D9%81"
    title: "جرج فان کلف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_van_Cleaf"
    title: "George van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Cleaf"
    title: "George Van Cleaf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2302226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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