# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kosuke-fukudome
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:39:22.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kosuke-fukudome"
name: "Kosuke Fukudome"
slug: "kosuke-fukudome"
description: "Kosuke Fukudome  is a Japanese former professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) league from 1999 to 2007 and in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2008 to 2012 before returning to play in Japan from 2013 to 2022. He played primarily with the Chicago Cubs in MLB and had a long spanning career in the Nippon Professional Baseball with the Chunichi Dragons and Hanshin Tigers."
tagline: "Japanese baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kosuke_Fukudome_-_2008_-_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1977-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.53
  momentum:             0.05636707338030589
  historical:           13.053324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Fukudome"
    title: "Kosuke Fukudome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "كوسوك فوكودوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Fukudome"
    title: "Kosuke Fukudome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%87_%D9%81%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "کوسوکه فوکودوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Fukudome"
    title: "Kosuke Fukudome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E7%95%99%E5%AD%9D%E4%BB%8B"
    title: "福留孝介"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%9B%84%EC%BF%A0%EB%8F%84%EB%A9%94_%EA%B3%A0%EC%8A%A4%EC%BC%80"
    title: "후쿠도메 고스케"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Fukudome"
    title: "Kosuke Fukudome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Fukudome"
    title: "Kosuke Fukudome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Fukudome"
    title: "Kosuke Fukudome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%8D%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%8D"
    title: "Фукудомэ, Косукэ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Fukudome"
    title: "Kosuke Fukudome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Fukudome"
    title: "Kosuke Fukudome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E7%95%99%E5%AD%9D%E4%BB%8B"
    title: "福留孝介"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1329341"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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