# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-gillies
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:23:51.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-gillies"
name: "Matt Gillies"
slug: "matt-gillies"
description: "Matthew Muirhead Gillies was a Scottish football player and manager who played for, captained, coached and managed Leicester City for a total of 15 years between 1952–1955 and 1956–1968. He is the club's longest serving manager, lasting a decade in the manager's seat between November 1958 and November 1968. He took charge of Leicester for a club record 508 matches, after making 111 appearances for the club as a player."
tagline: "Scottish footballer (1921–1998)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1921-08-12"
deathDate: "1998-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.65
  momentum:             0.4912280701754386
  historical:           6.544097333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82_%D0%93%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%81"
    title: "Метт Гілліс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "مات جيليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gillies"
    title: "Matt Gillies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gillies"
    title: "Matt Gillies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gillies"
    title: "Matt Gillies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gillies"
    title: "Matt Gillies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gillies"
    title: "Matt Gillies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q915929"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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