# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-leary
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:04:34.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-leary"
name: "Scott Leary"
slug: "scott-leary"
description: "John Scott Leary was an American freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. He won a silver medal in the 50-yard freestyle and a bronze in the 100-yard freestyle. Leary is widely acclaimed for helping to introduce his use of the Australian crawl to American swimming spectators and competitors and for breaking the world record in the 100-yard swim in July, 1905, with a time of 60 seconds."
tagline: "American swimmer (1881–1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J_Scott_Leary_1906.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1881-12-29"
deathDate: "1958-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.93379790940767
  historical:           12.003312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Скотт Лірі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Leary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_Leary"
    title: "John Scott Leary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Leary"
    title: "Scott Leary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Leary"
    title: "Scott Leary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اسکات لیری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Leary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Leary"
    title: "Scott Leary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "スコット・リアリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Leary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Leary"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Leary"
    title: "Scott Leary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Скот Лири"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump