# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lanny-poffo
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:23.252Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lanny-poffo"
name: "Lanny Poffo"
slug: "lanny-poffo"
description: "Lanny Mark Poffo better known by his ring names \"Leaping\" Lanny Poffo and the Genius, was a Canadian-American professional wrestler, motivational speaker, poet, and actor. Poffo was a second generation professional wrestler, his father being Angelo Poffo. His brother, \"Macho Man\" Randy Savage, was also a professional wrestler."
tagline: "Canadian-American professional wrestler and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lanny_Poffo_2014.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: "1954-12-28"
deathDate: "2023-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.239241333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688186/"
    handle:    "nm0688186"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.geniuslannypoffo.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88"
    title: "لینی پوفو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88"
    title: "لاني بوفو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88"
    title: "لانى پوفو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_Poffo"
    title: "Lanny Poffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_Poffo"
    title: "Lanny Poffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88"
    title: "لانی پوفو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_Poffo"
    title: "Lanny Poffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%83%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9"
    title: "ラニー・ポッフォ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_Poffo"
    title: "Lanny Poffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1805538"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/550123"
    title: "Lanny Poffo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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