# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:07:38.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-schmidt"
name: "Joe Schmidt"
slug: "joe-schmidt"
description: "Joseph Paul Schmidt was an American professional football player and coach. He played as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions for 13 years from 1953 to 1965. He won two NFL championships with the Lions, and, between 1954 and 1963, he played in ten consecutive Pro Bowl games and was selected each year as a first-team All-Pro player. He was also voted by his fellow NFL players as the NFL's most valuable defensive player in 1960 and 1963, named to the NFL 1950s All-Decade Team, inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1973 and chosen as a member of the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team in 2019."
tagline: "American football player and coach (1932-2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Schmidt_(Pitt).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1932-01-19"
deathDate: "2024-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.103674666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ジョー・シュミット (アメリカンフットボール)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جو شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جو شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schmidt"
    title: "Joe Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schmidt_(American_football)"
    title: "Joe Schmidt (American football)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schmidt_(NFL)"
    title: "Joe Schmidt (NFL)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schmidt"
    title: "Joe Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schmidt"
    title: "Joe Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schmidt_(giocatore_di_football_americano)"
    title: "Joe Schmidt (giocatore di football americano)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q284169"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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