# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/les-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:41:20.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/les-thornton"
name: "Les Thornton"
slug: "les-thornton"
description: "Les Thornton was a British professional wrestler who competed in Great Britain, Japan, and North America throughout the 1970s and 1980s most notably for Joint Promotions, Stampede Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation, and various National Wrestling Alliance territories."
tagline: "British professional wrestler (1934-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Les_Thornton_-_29_december_1975_-_WRESTLING_PROGRAM_NORTH_SIDE_COLISEUM_cover.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1934-04-09"
deathDate: "2019-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.827864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ليه ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ليه ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Thornton"
    title: "Les Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "レス・ソントン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Thornton"
    title: "Les Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6530041"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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