# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pat-stapleton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:13:02.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pat-stapleton"
name: "Pat Stapleton"
slug: "pat-stapleton"
description: "Patrick James \"Whitey\" Stapleton was a Canadian ice hockey player. A defenceman, Stapleton played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA), most notably for the Chicago Black Hawks. He was the father of Mike Stapleton, who had a lengthy career in the NHL."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player (1940–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patrick_Stapleton%2C_February_2012.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1940-07-04"
deathDate: "2020-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.751549333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Пет Степлтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بات ستابليتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پات ستاپليتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Stapleton"
    title: "Pat Stapleton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Stapleton_(ice_hockey)"
    title: "Pat Stapleton (ice hockey)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Stapleton"
    title: "Pat Stapleton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Stapleton"
    title: "Pat Stapleton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BF%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D1%8D%D1%82"
    title: "Стэплтон, Пэт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Stapleton_(ice_hockey)"
    title: "Pat Stapleton (ice hockey)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Stapleton"
    title: "Pat Stapleton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2056579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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