# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nile-kinnick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:09:11.010Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nile-kinnick"
name: "Nile Kinnick"
slug: "nile-kinnick"
description: "Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr. was an American naval aviator, law student, and college football player for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and was a consensus All-American. He died during a training flight while serving as a United States Navy aviator in World War II. Kinnick was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, and the University of Iowa renamed its football stadium Kinnick Stadium in his honor in 1972."
tagline: "American football player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nile_Kinnick.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1918-07-09"
deathDate: "1943-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.11
  momentum:             28.93617021276596
  historical:           7.305048
  currentAttention:     16
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nile_Kinnick"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "نيل كينيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Kinnick"
    title: "Nile Kinnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Kinnick"
    title: "Nile Kinnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Kinnick"
    title: "Nile Kinnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Kinnick"
    title: "Nile Kinnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ナイル・キニック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Kinnick"
    title: "Nile Kinnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321573"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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