# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-creighton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:53:15.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-creighton"
name: "James Creighton"
slug: "james-creighton"
description: "James George Aylwin Creighton was a Canadian lawyer, engineer, journalist and athlete. He is credited with organizing the first recorded indoor ice hockey match at Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1875. He helped popularize the sport in Montreal and later in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada after he moved to Ottawa in 1882 where he served for 48 years as the law clerk to the Senate of Canada."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey lawyer (1850–1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Creighton_the_father_of_ice_hockey_cropped.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: "1850-06-12"
deathDate: "1930-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.822176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس كريغتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس كريجتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Creighton"
    title: "James Creighton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Creighton_(ice_hockey)"
    title: "James Creighton (ice hockey)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4_%ED%81%AC%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%BC"
    title: "제임스 크레이튼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6131928"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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