# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-sparano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:14:03.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-sparano"
name: "Tony Sparano"
slug: "tony-sparano"
description: "Anthony Joseph Sparano III was an American football coach. He served as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins and Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) and is the only NFL head coach to have led a team to the playoffs the year following a one-win season, and only the second to conduct a 10-game turnaround, both of which Sparano accomplished in his first season with the Dolphins. Sparano was fired by the Dolphins in December 2011 after a 4–9 start to the season, his worst start in his four-year tenure with the team."
tagline: "American football coach (1961-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tony_Sparano.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1961-10-07"
deathDate: "2018-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.657528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Tony Sparano"
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    title: "Tony Sparano"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sparano"
    title: "Tony Sparano"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sparano"
    title: "Tony Sparano"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sparano"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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