# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-hobbs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:30:19.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-hobbs"
name: "Bill Hobbs"
slug: "bill-hobbs"
description: "William Barton Rogers Hobbs was an American rower who competed in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and is the younger brother of Franklin Hobbs. In 1968 he stroked the American coxed pair which finished fifth in the Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. In 1970 he competed on the Dating Game for a date with Karen Carpenter. Two years later he rowed #3 in the American eight that won a silver medal in the 1972 Munich Olympics. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School."
tagline: "American rower (1949–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_and_Elizabeth_Hobbs_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949-07-30"
deathDate: "2020-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             17.4
  historical:           15.07336266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hobbs"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump