# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alana-beard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:59.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alana-beard"
name: "Alana Beard"
slug: "alana-beard"
description: "Alana Monique Beard is an American former professional basketball player. After playing college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, she was drafted second overall by the Washington Mystics in the 2004 WNBA draft. She signed on with the Los Angeles Sparks as a free agent in 2012. Beard was the 2017 and 2018 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year. Beard announced her retirement from the WNBA on January 23, 2020. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2025."
tagline: "American professional women's basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alana_Beard_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1982-05-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.051156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Alanabeard20"
    handle:    "Alanabeard20"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/alanabeard/"
    handle:    "alanabeard"
sources:
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    title: "阿兰娜·比尔德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alana Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alana_Beard"
    title: "Alana Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ألانا بيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الانا بيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бирд, Алана"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alana_Beard"
    title: "Alana Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آلانا بیرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alana_Beard"
    title: "Alana Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alana_Beard"
    title: "Alana Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alana_Beard"
    title: "Alana Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alana_Beard"
    title: "Alana Beard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бирд, Алана"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Алана Бирд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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