# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-van-gundy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:01:22.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-van-gundy"
name: "Bill Van Gundy"
slug: "bill-van-gundy"
description: "William \"Bill\" Van Gundy is a former American college basketball coach, most notable for being the father of Jeff Van Gundy and Stan Van Gundy, both of whom have served as head coaches in the National Basketball Association. He recommended Stan for the job as asisstant with Miami after Pat Riley left the New York Knicks for Miami."
tagline: "American basketball coach"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           38.51
  momentum:             10
  historical:           1.539633333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  29
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Van_Gundy"
    title: "Bill Van Gundy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4911218"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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