# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-shelley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:56.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-shelley"
name: "Kenneth Shelley"
slug: "kenneth-shelley"
description: "Kenneth Gene Shelley is an American figure skater who competed in both singles and pairs. As a single skater, he won the 1972 United States Figure Skating Championships and placed 4th at the 1972 Winter Olympics. His highest placement at the World Figure Skating Championships was a single skater was 7th, in 1972. As a pair skater, he competed with JoJo Starbuck, with whom he is a three-time National Champion. Starbuck and Shelley competed in two Olympic Games, placing 13th in 1968 and 4th in 1972, and won two bronze medals at the World Figure Skating Championships. When they made the 1968 Olympic team, they were the youngest athletes the United States had ever sent to the Olympics."
tagline: "Figure skater"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1951-10-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             7.545382794001577
  historical:           5.875306666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Shelley"
    title: "Kenneth Shelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "كينيث شيلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Shelley"
    title: "Kenneth Shelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Shelley"
    title: "Kenneth Shelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Shelley"
    title: "Kenneth Shelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Shelley"
    title: "Kenneth Shelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1738905"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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