# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-walton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:56:23.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-walton"
name: "Bill Walton"
slug: "bill-walton"
description: "William Theodore Walton III was an American basketball player and television sportscaster. He played collegiately for the UCLA Bruins and professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland Trail Blazers, San Diego / Los Angeles Clippers, and Boston Celtics. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player and sportscaster (1952–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_walton_blazers_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
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  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1952-11-05"
deathDate: "2024-05-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 248
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump