# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-van-himst
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:39:20.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-van-himst"
name: "Paul Van Himst"
slug: "paul-van-himst"
description: "Paul Guillaume van Himst is a Belgian former football player and a football manager who played as a forward, most notably for R.S.C. Anderlecht. Regarded as Anderlecht's ultimate club icon, Van Himst holds the record of four Belgian Golden Shoe awards and was named best \"Belgian footballer of the twentieth century\"."
tagline: "Belgian footballer and manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Van_Himst.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1943-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.6
  momentum:             7.171298246877807
  historical:           21.43832533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887122/"
    handle:    "nm0887122"
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    title: "Paul Van Himst"
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    title: "파울 판 힘스트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Van Himst"
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    title: "Paul Van Himst"
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    title: "Paul Van Himst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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