# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gran-hamada
# Generated: 2026-09-02T10:45:17.122Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gran-hamada"
name: "Gran Hamada"
slug: "gran-hamada"
description: "Hiroaki Hamada , better known by his ring name Gran Hamada , was a Japanese professional wrestler, the first to adopt the high-flying Mexican lucha libre style. He wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, the Universal Wrestling Federation, Michinoku Pro, and All Japan Pro Wrestling and was the founder of Universal Lucha Libre. He also had stints with the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling in the United States. His daughters Xóchitl Hamada and Ayako Hamada are professional Japanese-Mexican wrestlers."
tagline: "Japanese professional wrestler (1950-2025)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bnevahinpeAlMXTLhNGUZnmkdfH.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1950-11-27"
deathDate: "2025-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.27
  momentum:             6.725291713776873
  historical:           6.477045333333334
  currentAttention:     24.14998411185256
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1126909/"
    handle:    "nm1126909"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E6%B5%9C%E7%94%B0"
    title: "グラン浜田"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Hamada"
    title: "Gran Hamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Hamada"
    title: "Gran Hamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "غران هامادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "جران هامادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Hamada"
    title: "Gran Hamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3042215"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1279668"
    title: "Hiroaki Hamada"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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