# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-koloff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:41:37.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-koloff"
name: "Ivan Koloff"
slug: "ivan-koloff"
description: "Oreal Donald Perras was a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name \"The Russian Bear\" Ivan Koloff, under which name he was billed as being from Russia and, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine. He was the third wrestler to hold the WWWF Championship. In April 2025, Koloff was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Canadian professional wrestler (1942–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan_Koloff.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: "1942-08-25"
deathDate: "2017-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.82
  momentum:             1.58361784103218
  historical:           16.37993333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1336547/"
    handle:    "nm1336547"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ivankoloff.com"
sources:
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    title: "伊凡·科洛夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "إيفان كولوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ايڤان كولوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreal_Perras"
    title: "Oreal Perras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CE%B2%CE%AC%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%86"
    title: "Ιβάν Κόλοφ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A3"
    title: "איוון קולוף"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95"
    title: "イワン・コロフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%84"
    title: "Иван Колофф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%99_%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%9F%E0%B9%8C"
    title: "อีแวน โคลอฟฟ์"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Koloff"
    title: "Ivan Koloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q778014"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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