# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-finkel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:52:27.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-finkel"
name: "Howard Finkel"
slug: "howard-finkel"
description: "Howard Finkel was an American professional wrestling ring announcer, backstage worker, and occasional professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in WWE. He began working for Vincent J. McMahon's World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) in 1975, and was a Madison Square Garden ring announcer since 1977. Finkel was WWE's longest-serving employee. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009."
tagline: "American professional wrestling ring announcer (1950–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Finkel_WrestleMania_28.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1950-06-07"
deathDate: "2020-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.67294133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/howardfinkel"
    handle:    "howardfinkel"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277885/"
    handle:    "nm0277885"
sources:
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    title: "Howard Finkel"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Χάουαρντ Φίνκελ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Finkel"
    title: "Howard Finkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Finkel"
    title: "Howard Finkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ハワード・フィンケル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Howard Finkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Howard Finkel"
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    title: "Финкель, Говард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Howard Finkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AE%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%94_%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A5"
    title: "ฮาเวิร์ด ฟิงเกิล"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Howard Finkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2512048"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Howard Finkel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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