# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/len-dawson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:09:47.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/len-dawson"
name: "Len Dawson"
slug: "len-dawson"
description: "Leonard Ray Dawson was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) for 19 seasons, primarily with the Kansas City Chiefs franchise. After playing college football for the Purdue Boilermakers, Dawson began his NFL career in 1957, spending three seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers and two with the Cleveland Browns. He left the NFL in 1962 to sign with the AFL's Chiefs, where he spent the last 14 seasons of his career, and rejoined the NFL after the AFL–NFL merger."
tagline: "American football player (1935-2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Len_Dawson.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: "1935-06-20"
deathDate: "2022-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.47704533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206183/"
    handle:    "nm0206183"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "لين دوسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "لين دوسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "لن داوسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "レン・ドーソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726229"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1242397"
    title: "Len Dawson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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