# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howie-long
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:39:12.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howie-long"
name: "Howie Long"
slug: "howie-long"
description: "Howard Matthew Moses Long is an American former professional football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Raiders franchise. He played college football for the Villanova Wildcats and was selected by the Raiders in the second round of the 1981 NFL draft, spending his first season with the team in Oakland and the remainder of his career in Los Angeles. Long received eight Pro Bowl and three first-team All-Pro selections while helping the team win Super Bowl XVIII. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000."
tagline: "American football defensive end, actor, and sports analyst"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howie_Long_2015_(cropped).jpg?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: "1960-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.38131733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0518989/"
    handle:    "nm0518989"
sources:
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    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "هوي لونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "هوى لونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%BE%DB%86%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%86%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "ھۆوی لۆنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Long"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Long"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Long"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Long"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Long"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Long"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Long"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Long"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962794"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126418"
    title: "Howie Long"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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