# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leighton-rees
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:26:00.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leighton-rees"
name: "Leighton Rees"
slug: "leighton-rees"
description: "Leighton Thomas Rees was a Welsh professional darts player who competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO) events. He won the 1978 BDO World Darts Championship, and was formerly ranked world number one. He was one of the sport's most successful players throughout the 1970s, and retired from the game in 1991."
tagline: "Darts player (1940–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Leightonrees.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1940-01-17"
deathDate: "2003-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.715446666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4800133/"
    handle:    "nm4800133"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Rees"
    title: "Leighton Rees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Rees"
    title: "Leighton Rees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Rees"
    title: "Leighton Rees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%81"
    title: "Лейтон Ріс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9"
    title: "レイトン・リース"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Rees"
    title: "Leighton Rees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1815066"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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