# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-best
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:57:05.844Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-best"
name: "Leon Best"
slug: "leon-best"
description: "Leon Julian Brendan Best is a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He has played for the Republic of Ireland national football team. Best represented Ireland at under-21 level and won his first full international cap against Nigeria on 29 May 2009."
tagline: "Irish footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leon_Best.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1986-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.58
  momentum:             8.134110787172009
  historical:           17.53845066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Леон Бест"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليون بيست"
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    title: "لیون بست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لیون بست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "レオン・ベスト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "리언 베스트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
    title: "Leon Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Бест, Леон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Best"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%8C"
    title: "ลีออน เบสต์"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump