# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virgil-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:36:52.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virgil-hill"
name: "Virgil Hill"
slug: "virgil-hill"
description: "Virgil Eugene Hill is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2015. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light heavyweight title twice, from 1987 to 1997; the International Boxing Federation (IBF) light heavyweight title from 1996 to 1997; and the WBA cruiserweight title between 2000 and 2002. He also held the WBA (Regular) cruiserweight title between 2006 and 2007. As an amateur, Hill won a silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics. In 2013, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American boxer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/One_Last_Stand.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1964-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           14.709944
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump