# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basil-d-oliveira
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:40:25.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basil-d-oliveira"
name: "Basil D'Oliveira"
slug: "basil-d-oliveira"
description: "Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled 1968–69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair."
tagline: "Cricket player of England. (1931-2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1931-10-04"
deathDate: "2011-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.45
  momentum:             3.33963691376702
  historical:           13.126972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2174439/"
    handle:    "nm2174439"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Basil D'Oliveira"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump