# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-sawyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:57:20.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-sawyer"
name: "Alan Sawyer"
slug: "alan-sawyer"
description: "Alan Leigh Sawyer was an American professional basketball player for the Washington Capitols of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins from 1945 to 1950. He missed the end of the 1948–49 season after an appendectomy. Sawyer helped lead the 1949–50 team to their first Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) championship. He was named to the first team of the All-Southern Division PCC team in 1949, and voted to the second team in 1950. He was selected in the third round of the 1950 NBA draft by the Capitols."
tagline: "Basketball player (1928–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Sawyer_1950.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1928-01-01"
deathDate: "2012-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.09
  momentum:             0.8620689655172415
  historical:           4.802268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ألان سوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "الان سوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sawyer"
    title: "Alan Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sawyer"
    title: "Alan Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sawyer"
    title: "Alan Sawyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3607773"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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