# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-ham
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:55:45.671Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-ham"
name: "Jack Ham"
slug: "jack-ham"
description: "Jack Raphael Ham Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1971 to 1982. He is considered one of the greatest outside linebackers in the history of the NFL. Ham was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1990. He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions. In mid-2019 the newsletter of the PSU Alumni Association rated Ham first among the 100 greatest athletes, considering all sports and all previous football players, in University history."
tagline: "American football player"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/JackHamPIT.png/330px-JackHamPIT.png"
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: "1948-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.386114666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ham"
    title: "Jack Ham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "جاك هام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "جاك هام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ham"
    title: "Jack Ham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ham"
    title: "Jack Ham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ham"
    title: "Jack Ham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ham"
    title: "Jack Ham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ham"
    title: "Jack Ham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ジャック・ハム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507024"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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