# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-dube
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:17:46.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-dube"
name: "Joseph Dube"
slug: "joseph-dube"
description: "Joseph Douglas Dube was an American weightlifter, world champion, Olympic Games medalist and strongman competitor. He won a bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and set two world records in the clean and press the same year. As of 2025, he is still the last senior male American weightlifter to win the world title in weightlifting, which he achieved in 1969."
tagline: "American weightlifter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Dube_1968.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-02-15"
deathDate: "2025-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.27
  momentum:             1.810344827586207
  historical:           10.47653066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12377732/"
    handle:    "nm12377732"
sources:
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    title: "Джозеф Дьюб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزيف دوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزيف دوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Dube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dube"
    title: "Joseph Dube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dube"
    title: "Joseph Dube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "جوزف دوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dube"
    title: "Joseph Dube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dube"
    title: "Joseph Dube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dube"
    title: "Joseph Dube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dube"
    title: "Joseph Dube"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1475854"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5305040"
    title: "Joseph Dube"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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