Famous athletes
Athletes in every sport — footballers, track and field athletes, tennis players, racing drivers, boxers, chess players and more — with articles in at least 40 Wikimedia projects, with their sport, dates of birth and death and citizenship. One row per person.
Columns
Stable keys — use them in the API, SQL and code
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| rank | Rank | integer | Position in this list by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (ties share a rank). |
| name | Name | string | — |
| wikidata | Wikidata | entity | Wikidata item for the person. |
| description | Description | string | Wikidata's short description of the person. |
| occupation | Occupation | string | The person's main occupation as classified by Pantheon. |
| sport | Sport | string | Up to two sports Wikidata lists for the person. |
| birth_date | Born | date | Date of birth, at the precision Wikidata records (Pantheon's birth year if Wikidata has none). |
| death_date | Died | date | Date of death; blank if living or unknown. |
| country | Citizenship | country | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code when the person has a single present-day country of citizenship in Wikidata. |
| citizenship | Countries of citizenship | string | Countries of citizenship recorded in Wikidata (preferred ones only, if marked). |
| birth_country | Birth country | country | Present-day country of birth (Pantheon) — useful for people whose citizenship was a state that no longer exists. |
| notable_works | Notable works | integer | Number of notable works (P800) Wikidata lists for the person. |
| sitelinks | Sitelinks | integer | Number of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia pages about the person — a rough measure of worldwide notability. |
| hpi | HPI | number | Pantheon's Historical Popularity Index (0–100). |
| image | Image | image | Picture from Wikimedia Commons. |
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Every player with at least one tour-level singles match on the ATP or WTA tour since 1968: tour-level titles, Grand Slam titles, finals, match wins and losses and win percentage, computed from the match results. One row per player per tour.
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Career regular-season NHL totals for every skater who has played in the league since 1917, as aggregated by the NHL. One row per player.
NBA players (all-time)
People recorded on Wikidata as having played for an NBA or BAA team since 1946, with birth date and place, citizenship, position, height, weight, years and number of franchises, draft details and Hall of Fame status. One row per player.
NFL regular-season standings, every season since 1920
Final regular-season standings of every NFL season (APFA in 1920–21) whose standings pass consistency checks: one row per team per season with wins, losses, ties, winning percentage, points for and against, division, conference and playoff seed.
NBA regular-season standings, every season since 1946–47
Final regular-season standings of every NBA (and BAA, 1946–49) season: one row per team per season with wins, losses, winning percentage, games behind, division, conference, conference rank and the clinch code printed in the standings.