# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-swail
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:26:16.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-swail"
name: "Joe Swail"
slug: "joe-swail"
description: "Joe Swail is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player from Belfast. He retired in May 2019 after being relegated from the tour. He has reached ten major ranking semi-finals, including the 2000 and 2001 World Championships but only one final. Swail is renowned for playing well at the Crucible Theatre, having reached the last 16 on four further occasions. He is also a former English amateur champion and Northern Ireland amateur runner-up, and has captained Northern Ireland internationally. He was Irish champion in 1992 and 2005."
tagline: "Northern Irish snooker player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Swail.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1969-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.28070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joeswail.com"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джо Суейл"
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    title: "Joe Swail"
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    title: "Joe Swail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Swail"
    title: "Joe Swail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Džo Sveils"
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    title: "Joe Swail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Swail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Swail"
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    title: "Свэйл, Джо"
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    title: "โจ สเวล"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump