# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gil-heron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:36:31.857Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gil-heron"
name: "Gil Heron"
slug: "gil-heron"
description: "Gilbert Saint Elmo Heron was a Jamaican professional footballer. He was the first black player to play for Scottish club Celtic and was the father of poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron."
tagline: "Jamaican footballer (1922-2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gil_Heron_in_Ebony_Magazine%2C_1947_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1922-04-09"
deathDate: "2008-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.26
  momentum:             7.345644708531043
  historical:           4.008645333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيل هيرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيل هيرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Heron"
    title: "Gil Heron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Heron"
    title: "Gil Heron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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