# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-closs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:04:18.439Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-closs"
name: "Bill Closs"
slug: "bill-closs"
description: "Bill Tom Closs was an American basketball player. He played collegiately for Rice University. In his final year, he led the Southwest Conference in scoring and was All-American in 1943. In 1971 he was inducted into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 2003 his basketball jersey was retired."
tagline: "American basketball player (1922-2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Bill_Closs_1947.jpeg"
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: "1922-01-08"
deathDate: "2011-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.81
  momentum:             13.33333333333333
  historical:           5.670086666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Closs"
    title: "Bill Closs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "بيل كلوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Closs"
    title: "Bill Closs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%85%8B%E6%B4%9B%E6%96%AF"
    title: "比尔·克洛斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Closs"
    title: "Bill Closs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Клосс, Билл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3639961"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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