# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norifumi-nishimura
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:17:30.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norifumi-nishimura"
name: "Norifumi Nishimura"
slug: "norifumi-nishimura"
description: "Norifumi Nishimura  is a former Nippon Professional Baseball player and current manager. Nishimura spent the entirety of his 16-year playing career with the Chiba Lotte Marines. After retiring, he coached for the team until being named the successor to former Marines-manager Bobby Valentine in late 2009."
tagline: "Japanese baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Norifumi_Nishimura_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1960-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.14
  momentum:             9.179607638001533
  historical:           5.612070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E5%BE%B3%E6%96%87"
    title: "西村徳文"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "نوريفومى نيشيمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norifumi_Nishimura"
    title: "Norifumi Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E5%BE%B7%E6%96%87"
    title: "西村德文"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%8B%9C%EB%AC%B4%EB%9D%BC_%EB%85%B8%EB%A6%AC%ED%9B%84%EB%AF%B8"
    title: "니시무라 노리후미"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norifumi_Nishimura"
    title: "Norifumi Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485719"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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