# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-wilson-q7288281
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:59:46.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-wilson-q7288281"
name: "Ralph Wilson"
slug: "ralph-wilson-q7288281"
description: "Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. was an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in the National Football League (NFL). He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League (AFL), the league with which the NFL merged in 1970, and was the last of the original AFL owners to own his team. At the time of his death he was the oldest owner in the NFL, at age 95. His 54 years of ownership was the third longest tenure by one owner in league history behind George Halas and Art Rooney. Wilson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009."
tagline: "American football executive (1918–2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1918-10-17"
deathDate: "2014-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.19
  momentum:             15.9171826625387
  historical:           7.768222666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "رالف ولسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "رالف ويلسون (رجل أعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "رالف ويلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wilson_(Sportfunktion%C3%A4r)"
    title: "Ralph Wilson (Sportfunktionär)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wilson"
    title: "Ralph Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wilson_Jr."
    title: "Ralph Wilson Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wilson_(amerikansk_fotball)"
    title: "Ralph Wilson (amerikansk fotball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wilson"
    title: "Ralph Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wilson"
    title: "Ralph Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7288281"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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