# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-widby
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:04:38.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-widby"
name: "Ron Widby"
slug: "ron-widby"
description: "George Ronald Widby was an American professional football player who was a punter in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers. He also was a member of the New Orleans Buccaneers of the American Basketball Association (ABA). He played college football and basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers, earning conference player of the year honors in basketball in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in 1967."
tagline: "American football and basketball player (1945–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Widby.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1945-03-09"
deathDate: "2020-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.72
  momentum:             4.325842696629213
  historical:           5.942513333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Widby"
    title: "Ron Widby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "رون ويدبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Widby"
    title: "Ron Widby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Widby"
    title: "Ron Widby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Widby"
    title: "Ron Widby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Widby"
    title: "Ron Widby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Widby"
    title: "Ron Widby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3940995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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