# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/len-goodman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:01:45.553Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/len-goodman"
name: "Len Goodman"
slug: "len-goodman"
description: "Leonard Gordon Goodman was an English professional ballroom dancer, dance teacher, and dance competition adjudicator. He appeared as head judge on the British television programme Strictly Come Dancing – in which various celebrities compete for the glitterball trophy – from its beginning in 2004 until 2016, and on the American television programme Dancing with the Stars from 2005 until 2022. He also ran a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent."
tagline: "British professional ballroom dancer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Len_Goodman_1.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1944-04-25"
deathDate: "2023-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.403884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1625427/"
    handle:    "nm1625427"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لين غودمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Len Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Len Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Goodman"
    title: "Len Goodman"
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  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "लेन गुडमैन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Goodman"
    title: "Len Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Goodman"
    title: "Len Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Goodman"
    title: "Len Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Goodman"
    title: "Len Goodman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6521794"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/149148"
    title: "Len Goodman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump