# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-rush
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:02:51.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-rush"
name: "Ian Rush"
slug: "ian-rush"
description: "Ian James Rush is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of the greatest Welsh players ever. Rush played for Liverpool from 1980 to 1987 and 1988 to 1996. He is the club's all-time leading goalscorer, having scored 346 goals in all competitions. He also holds the records for being the highest goalscorer in the history of the EFL Cup and in FA Cup finals. At international level, Rush made 73 appearances for Wales and remained their record goalscorer with 28 goals, until 2018."
tagline: "Welsh association football player and manager (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Rush_in_Singapore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1961-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.05
  momentum:             2.475823823273294
  historical:           25.959912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0750670/"
    handle:    "nm0750670"
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    title: "Discogs"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump