# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-downie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:26:20.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-downie"
name: "John Downie"
slug: "john-downie"
description: "John Dennis Downie was a Scottish footballer. He was born in Lanark, and played as an inside forward. Downie played football as a member of the Lanark Air Training Corps, but joined Bradford Park Avenue as an amateur in August 1942. After spending time working in a colliery in Bradford, he turned professional in December 1944, and made his debut when football restarted after the Second World War."
tagline: "Scottish footballer (1925-2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1925-07-19"
deathDate: "2013-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.48
  momentum:             17.95774647887324
  historical:           7.003312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5587003"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "جون دونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "جان داونی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Downie"
    title: "Johnny Downie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Downie"
    title: "Johnny Downie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "جان داونی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Downie"
    title: "John Downie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Дауни, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4155285"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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