# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnny-giles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:43:51.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johnny-giles"
name: "Johnny Giles"
slug: "johnny-giles"
description: "Michael John Giles is an Irish former association football player and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016. He was nominated for the 1972 Ballon d'Or and the FAI voted Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004."
tagline: "Irish soccer player and manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johnny_Giles_in_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1940-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump