# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-lange
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:40:07.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-lange"
name: "Mike Lange"
slug: "mike-lange"
description: "Mike Lange was an American sportscaster best known for his 46-year career as a play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lange served as the team's play-by-play announcer in 1974 and again from 1976 to 2021. In 2001, he received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for his outstanding work as an NHL broadcaster."
tagline: "American sportscaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Lange_1_2011-12-03.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-03-03"
deathDate: "2025-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.8
  momentum:             11.25
  historical:           5.087726666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486169/"
    handle:    "nm0486169"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lange"
    title: "Mike Lange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "مايك لانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "مايك لانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lange"
    title: "Mike Lange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Lange"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6847611"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2574832"
    title: "Mike Lange"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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