# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-peterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:04:27.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-peterson"
name: "Walter Peterson"
slug: "walter-peterson"
description: "Walter Ernest Peterson was an Ireland men's field hockey international. He was a member of the Ireland team that played at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal. Peterson was one of six brothers who played field hockey for Avoca, Palmerstown and Ireland. His brother, Jack Peterson, also played for Ireland at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Walter and Jack Peterson were also team mates at Monkstown. Peterson also won Irish Senior Cup titles with both Palmerstown and Monkstown."
tagline: "Olympic field hockey player"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1883-11-07"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           34.77
  momentum:             1.428571428571428
  historical:           8.800864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "والٹر پیٹرسن (فیلڈ ہاکی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "والتر بيترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر بيترسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Peterson"
    title: "Walter Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Peterson_(field_hockey)"
    title: "Walter Peterson (field hockey)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C)"
    title: "والتر پترسون (بازیکن هاکی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Peterson_(maahockeypelaaja)"
    title: "Walter Peterson (maahockeypelaaja)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Peterson_(hokej_na_travi)"
    title: "Walter Peterson (hokej na travi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Peterson"
    title: "Walter Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Peterson"
    title: "Walter Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Питерсон, Уолтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3426186"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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