# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-gomelsky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:15:01.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-gomelsky"
name: "Alexander Gomelsky"
slug: "alexander-gomelsky"
description: "Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky was a Russian professional basketball player and coach. The Father of Soviet and Russian basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007."
tagline: "Soviet basketball coach (1928–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Yakovlevich_Gomelsky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1928-01-18"
deathDate: "2005-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.06095333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 234
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    title: "الكسندر جوميلسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Gomelskij"
    title: "Alexandr Gomelskij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jakowlewitsch_Gomelski"
    title: "Alexander Jakowlewitsch Gomelski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aleksandr Gomelski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexandr Gomelskii"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Александр Гомельский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aleksandr Gomelski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Gomelski"
    title: "Aleksander Gomelski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gomelsky"
    title: "Alexander Gomelsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Гомельский, Александр Яковлевич"
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    title: "Александар Гомељски"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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