# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walt-michaels
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:18:13.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walt-michaels"
name: "Walt Michaels"
slug: "walt-michaels"
description: "Walter Edward Michaels was an American professional football player and coach who was best remembered for his six-year tenure as head coach of the National Football League (NFL)'s New York Jets from 1977 to 1982. In 1977, Michaels was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame and into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Long Island in the football Category with the Class of 1997."
tagline: "American football player and coach (1929-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walt_Michaels_-_1952_Bowman_Large.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: "1929-10-16"
deathDate: "2019-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.51
  momentum:             11.50679354740217
  historical:           6.354177333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walt Michaels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "والت مايكلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "والت مايكلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Michaels"
    title: "Walt Michaels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Michaels"
    title: "Walt Michaels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Michaels"
    title: "Walt Michaels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Michaels"
    title: "Walt Michaels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14950970"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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