# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bayard-forrest
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:29:44.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bayard-forrest"
name: "Bayard Forrest"
slug: "bayard-forrest"
description: "Bayard Forrest is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'10\", 235 lb center who played at Grand Canyon University before being drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1976 NBA draft. Forrest never played for the Sonics, but he played one season for Athletes in Action and two seasons for the Phoenix Suns before retiring in 1980 due to injury."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bayard_Forrest_GCU.jpg?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: "1954-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.673506666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Forrest"
    title: "Bayard Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "بايارد فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "بايارد فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B4%9D%E4%BA%9A%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E7%A6%8F%E9%87%8C%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9"
    title: "贝亚德·福里斯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Forrest"
    title: "Bayard Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Forrest"
    title: "Bayard Forrest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3637064"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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