# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uriah-rennie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:34:11.509Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uriah-rennie"
name: "Uriah Rennie"
slug: "uriah-rennie"
description: "Uriah Duddley Rennie was a British football referee. He was the first black referee to officiate in the Premier League, and officiated over 300 Premier League matches between 1997 and 2008. Outside of football, he was a magistrate in Sheffield and briefly served as chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University in 2025."
tagline: "English football referee (1959–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Uriah_rennie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-10-23"
deathDate: "2025-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.54
  momentum:             25
  historical:           9.45434
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6778191/"
    handle:    "nm6778191"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Rennie"
    title: "Uriah Rennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Rennie"
    title: "Uriah Rennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Rennie"
    title: "Uriah Rennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "یوریا رنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Rennie"
    title: "Uriah Rennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Rennie"
    title: "Uriah Rennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Rennie"
    title: "Uriah Rennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Rennie"
    title: "Uriah Rennie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%8F"
    title: "Ренни, Юрая"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "اریا رینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4583308"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1825412"
    title: "Uriah Rennie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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