# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lam-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:14:53.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lam-jones"
name: "Lam Jones"
slug: "lam-jones"
description: "John Wesley \"Lam\" Jones was an American athlete who won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 meter relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) as a wide receiver for the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys. Prior to that, he played college football and ran track at the University of Texas."
tagline: "American sprinter and football wide receiver (1958-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lam_Jones_(6147901416)_(cropped).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: "1958-04-04"
deathDate: "2019-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.629016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8B%89%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E7%90%BC%E6%96%AF"
    title: "拉姆·琼斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "لام جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "لام جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jones_(Leichtathlet)"
    title: "Johnny Jones (Leichtathlet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Jones"
    title: "Lam Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "لام جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Jones"
    title: "John Wesley Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Jones"
    title: "Lam Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Jones"
    title: "Lam Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Jones"
    title: "John Wesley Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Jones"
    title: "John Wesley Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Jones"
    title: "John Wesley Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Jones"
    title: "Lam Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Джонс, Джонни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jones"
    title: "Johnny Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Jones"
    title: "Lam Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Джонні Джонс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1365320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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