# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-bean
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:12:45.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-bean"
name: "Billy Bean"
slug: "billy-bean"
description: "William Daro Bean was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers (1987–1989), Los Angeles Dodgers (1989), and San Diego Padres (1993–1995), as well as the Kintetsu Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in 1992. In July 2014, he was named MLB's first ambassador for inclusion, having publicly come out as gay in 1999. In January 2016, he became MLB's vice president, ambassador for inclusion and was senior vice president and special assistant to the commissioner."
tagline: "American baseball player (1964–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Bean_(6339989744).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-05-11"
deathDate: "2024-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.91
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.716417333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467905/"
    handle:    "nm1467905"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://billybean.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bean_(pledan_di_baseball)"
    title: "Billy Bean (pledan di baseball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84)"
    title: "بيلى باين (لاعب بيسبول)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bean_(Baseballspieler)"
    title: "Billy Bean (Baseballspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bean"
    title: "Billy Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bean"
    title: "Billy Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bean"
    title: "Billy Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "בילי בין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3_(1964%E5%B9%B4%E7%94%9F%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%96%E9%87%8E%E6%89%8B)"
    title: "ビリー・ビーン (1964年生の外野手)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bean"
    title: "Billy Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723147"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1379868"
    title: "Billy Bean"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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