# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/riki-ellison
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:32:01.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/riki-ellison"
name: "Riki Ellison"
slug: "riki-ellison"
description: "Riki Morgan Ellison is a New Zealand-American former professional player of American football who was a linebacker for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was known as Riki Gray while playing college football for the USC Trojans, earning all-conference honors in the Pac-10 in 1982. He is the first New Zealander to play in the NFL and the first New Zealander to win a Super Bowl. Ellison is also the founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance and the Youth Impact Program."
tagline: "American football player (born 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Riki_Ellison_at_CAFB_071128-F-0870P-002_crop.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1960-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.500362666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki_Ellison"
    title: "Riki Ellison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ريكى اليسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki_Ellison"
    title: "Riki Ellison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/12b1aeff-8451-488f-a082-1685f5c3de46"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki_Ellison"
    title: "Riki Ellison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki_Ellison"
    title: "Riki Ellison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7334036"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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