# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ferris
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:22:40.801Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ferris"
name: "John Ferris"
slug: "john-ferris"
description: "John Edward Ferris was an American competition swimmer, for Stanford University, a winner of two bronze medals in the 1968 Olympics in butterfly and medley events, and a one-time world record-holder."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist, former world record-holder (1949-2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/FerrisJohnOlympicSwimmer.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949-07-24"
deathDate: "2020-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.937113333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81_(%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%8C)"
    title: "Джон Ферріс (плавець)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Ferris"
    title: "John Edward Ferris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ferris_(swimmer)"
    title: "John Ferris (swimmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ferris"
    title: "John Ferris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_(%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%DA%AF%D8%B1)"
    title: "جان فریس (شناگر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ferris_(natation)"
    title: "John Ferris (natation)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ferris"
    title: "John Ferris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ferris"
    title: "John Ferris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ferris_(swimmer)"
    title: "John Ferris (swimmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ferris"
    title: "John Ferris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6233040"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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