# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gambino
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:16:20.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gambino"
name: "John Gambino"
slug: "john-gambino"
description: "Giovanni \"John\"  Gambino was an Italian-born American mobster. Born in Palermo, Sicily, he became a made member of the Gambino crime family in 1975 and a capodecina or captain, and head of the crime family's Sicilian faction, appointed by family boss John Gotti in 1986, according to Mafia turncoat Sammy Gravano."
tagline: "American mobster (1940–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giovanni_%E2%80%9EJohn%E2%80%9C_Gambino_(Mugshot).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
birthDate: "1940-08-22"
deathDate: "2017-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.24
  momentum:             1.199795779441797
  historical:           5.236916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "جون غامبينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gambino"
    title: "John Gambino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gambino"
    title: "John Gambino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gambino"
    title: "John Gambino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gambino"
    title: "John Gambino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809288"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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