# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-howland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:45.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-howland"
name: "Ben Howland"
slug: "ben-howland"
description: "Benjamin Clark Howland is an American college basketball coach who most recently served as the men's head coach at Mississippi State University from to 2015 to 2022. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Northern Arizona University from 1994 to 1999, the University of Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2003, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2003 to 2013. Howland became the first men's coach in modern college basketball history to be fired shortly after winning an outright power-conference title. He is one of the few NCAA Division I coaches to take four teams to the NCAA tournament."
tagline: "American basketball coach (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Howland_(cropped).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: "1957-05-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.64
  momentum:             0.437956204379562
  historical:           4.827360000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "بين هولاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Howland"
    title: "Ben Howland"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Howland"
    title: "Ben Howland"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "بن هولند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Howland"
    title: "Ben Howland"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4885868"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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