# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-swofford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:07:00.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-swofford"
name: "John Swofford"
slug: "john-swofford"
description: "John Douglas Swofford is an American former college athletics administrator. He served as the athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1980 to 1997 and as the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) from 1997 to 2021."
tagline: "American football player, college athletics administrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KenHainesJohnSwofford.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: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.545789333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swofford"
    title: "John Swofford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6259836"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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