# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walt-tkaczuk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:52:55.775Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walt-tkaczuk"
name: "Walt Tkaczuk"
slug: "walt-tkaczuk"
description: "Walter Robert Bogdan Tkaczuk is a Canadian former ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1967 and 1981. Tkaczuk's family, originally from Ukraine, moved to Timmins, Ontario from West Germany when he was two years old. He was the first player born in Germany to appear in an NHL game."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walt_Tkaczuk_80-81.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1947-09-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.493846666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Tkaczuk"
    title: "Walt Tkaczuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA_%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "والت تكاكزوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Tkaczuk"
    title: "Walt Tkaczuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82_%D0%A2%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%83%D0%BA"
    title: "Волт Ткачук"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Tkaczuk"
    title: "Walt Tkaczuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Tkaczuk"
    title: "Walt Tkaczuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q827516"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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