Okerlund, Gene

URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93115279

Variants

• Okerlund, Eugene Arthur
• Okerlund, Mean Gene

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n93115279

Identifies RWO

• https://isni.org/isni/0000000035433667
• https://d-nb.info/gnd/1174685352

• Birth Date

  1942-12-19

• Death Date

  2019-01-02

• Birth Place

  Sisseton (S.D.)

• Associated Language

  English

• Field of Activity

  Wrestling




• Occupation

  Sportscasters

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn++93115279#skos:Concept

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• Gene Okerlund Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

• found: The Wrestling album II [SR] p1987:label (Gene Okerlund)
• found: New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 3, 2019(in obituary published Jan. 2: Gene Okerlund; b. Eugene Arthur Okerlund, Dec. 19, 1942, Sisseton, S.D.; d. Wednesday [Jan. 2, 2019], Sarasota, Fla., aged 76; lived in Osprey, Fla.; as a ringside interviewer and commentator, served for decades as a straight man to the outsize personalities who suffuse the world of professional wrestling; nicknamed Mean Gene by the wrestler (and future governor of Minnesota) Jesse Ventura)

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF PersonalName
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Change Notes

• 1993-11-26: new
• 2019-01-03: revised

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• N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
• JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
• MADS - RDF/XML
• MADS - N-Triples
• MADS/RDF - JSON
• SKOS - RDF/XML
• SKOS - N-Triples
• SKOS - JSON
• MADS/XML
• MARC/XML