# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bela-karolyi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:01:30.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bela-karolyi"
name: "Béla Károlyi"
slug: "bela-karolyi"
description: "Béla Károlyi was a Romanian and American gymnastics coach of Hungarian origin. Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralized training system for gymnastics. One of his earliest protégés was Nadia Comăneci, the first Olympic Games gymnast to be awarded a perfect score. Living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Károlyi frequently clashed with Romanian officials. He and his wife defected to the United States in 1981."
tagline: "Romanian-American gymnastics coach (1942–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/B%C3%A9la_K%C3%A1rolyi.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1942-09-13"
deathDate: "2024-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.58181066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 192
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0477601"
sources:
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    title: "Каройи, Бела"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump