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Leo Nomellini
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Italian-American football player and professional wrestler (1924–2000)
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Leo Nomellini was an Italian male professional wrestler and American football player. Born in Lucca in 1924, he held citizenship in Italy and the Kingdom of Italy, later aligning with the United States. He spoke Italian and served in World War II.
Nomellini played defensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers. His professional career spanned from 1950 to 1963. He is recognized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame collection. He died in Stanford in 2000.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Thesportsdb, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Vinony catalogs Leo Nomellini in its Pro Football Hall of Fame collection (315 entries).
Within Vinony's link graph, Leo Nomellini is referenced by 727 other articles, and connects out to Chicago, San Francisco 49ers and Maurice Vachon.
Vinony files it under 1924 births, 2000 deaths and 20th-century Italian sportsmen.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Sports profile
- Sport
- American Football
- Nationality
- Italy
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Lucca
- Place of death
- Stanford
- Occupation
- professional wrestler
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Sport
- American football
- Position played
- defensive tackle
- Mass
- 259
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Leo Nomellini 1954.jpg
- Height
- 75
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1924-06-19
- date of death
- 2000-10-17
- start of work period
- 1950-03-21
- end of work period
- 1963-00-00
- allegiance
- United States
- Commons category
- Leo Nomellini
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