# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phil-niekro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:34:33.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phil-niekro"
name: "Phil Niekro"
slug: "phil-niekro"
description: "Philip Henry Niekro, nicknamed \"Knucksie\", was an American baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays. Niekro is generally regarded as the greatest knuckleball pitcher of all time."
tagline: "American baseball player (1939–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phil_Niekro_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-04-01"
deathDate: "2020-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.72
  momentum:             4.607237422771403
  historical:           12.199024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1631288/"
    handle:    "nm1631288"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%B2%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E5%B0%BC%E5%8F%AF%E7%BE%85"
    title: "菲爾·尼可羅"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "فيل نيكرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD"
    title: "フィル・ニークロ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%84_%EB%8B%88%ED%81%AC%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "필 니크로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niekro"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114468"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1085293"
    title: "Phil Niekro"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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