# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howie-meeker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:24:36.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howie-meeker"
name: "Howie Meeker"
slug: "howie-meeker"
description: "Howard William Meeker was a Canadian professional hockey player in the National Hockey League, youth coach and educator in ice hockey, and a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament. He became best known to Canadians as an excitable and enthusiastic television colour commentator for Hockey Night in Canada, breaking down strategy in between periods of games with early use of the telestrator. In the 1970s, he ran hockey camps and created numerous books and a television series promoting youth education in the sport."
tagline: "Canadian politician, formerly ice hockey player (1923–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howie_Meeker_Calder.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1923-11-04"
deathDate: "2020-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.29
  momentum:             7.692307692307692
  historical:           7.707742666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Говард Мікер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "هوى ميكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Meeker"
    title: "Howie Meeker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Meeker"
    title: "Howie Meeker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Meeker"
    title: "Howie Meeker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Meeker"
    title: "Howie Meeker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B8"
    title: "Микер, Хоуи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Meeker"
    title: "Howie Meeker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Meeker"
    title: "Howie Meeker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q941067"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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