# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-bjanes-y
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:31:51.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-bjanes-y"
name: "Melissa Bjånesøy"
slug: "melissa-bjanes-y"
description: "Melissa Linn Berman Bjånesøy is an American-born Norwegian former footballer who played as a striker. She previously played for IL Sandviken. In the 2011 season she scored ten goals to help Sandviken avoid relegation."
tagline: "Norwegian association football player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melissa_Bj%C3%A5nes%C3%B8y.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1992-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.44
  momentum:             5.625
  historical:           7.002016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bj%C3%A5nes%C3%B8y"
    title: "Melissa Bjånesøy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A8%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "ميليسا بچونيسوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bj%C3%A5nes%C3%B8y"
    title: "Melissa Bjånesøy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bj%C3%A5nes%C3%B8y"
    title: "Melissa Bjånesøy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "ملیسا بیونسوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bj%C3%A5nes%C3%B8y"
    title: "Melissa Bjånesøy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bj%C3%A5nes%C3%B8y"
    title: "Melissa Bjånesøy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bj%C3%A5nes%C3%B8y"
    title: "Melissa Bjånesøy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6812646"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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