# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-mcdermott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:35:12.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-mcdermott"
name: "Mike McDermott"
slug: "mike-mcdermott"
description: "Michael James McDermott was an American breaststroke swimmer and water polo player who competed in both the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics. A noted athlete, he was the U.S. indoor 200-yard breaststroke champion for nine successive years, and between 1914-17 played on four National Water Polo Championship teams with the Illinois Athletic Club. He served as a Director of the Illinois Athletic Club through the 1950s, and founded and operated M.J. McDermott and Company, a successful Chicago-based construction and general contracting firm."
tagline: "American swimmer and water polo player (1893–1970)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/McDermottMikeOlympian.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1893-01-18"
deathDate: "1970-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.91
  momentum:             0.925925925925926
  historical:           4.802124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "مايك مكديرموت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McDermott_(Schwimmer)"
    title: "Michael McDermott (Schwimmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McDermott_(athlete)"
    title: "Mike McDermott (athlete)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA_(%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "میک مک‌درموت (ورزشکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McDermott"
    title: "Mike McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1675686"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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