# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-waddell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:30:28.437Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-waddell"
name: "Tom Waddell"
slug: "tom-waddell"
description: "Tom Waddell was an American medical doctor and decathlete who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and founder of the Gay Olympics."
tagline: "Founder of Gay Games (1937–1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Tom_Waddell_in_the_mid_1980s.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1937-11-01"
deathDate: "1987-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.34
  momentum:             13.38306185450157
  historical:           9.648492000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%82%D9%88%D9%89)"
    title: "توم واديل (منافس العاب قوى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waddell"
    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waddell"
    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waddell"
    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waddell"
    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waddell"
    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9C"
    title: "טום ואדל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waddell"
    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waddell"
    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waddell"
    title: "Tom Waddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1376064"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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