# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-ray-bates
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:30:14.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-ray-bates"
name: "Billy Ray Bates"
slug: "billy-ray-bates"
description: "Billy Ray Bates is a retired American professional basketball player. Bates played shooting guard at McAdams High in Mississippi and attended Kentucky State University."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Ray_Bates.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1956-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.68
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.992702666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Billy Ray Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيلي رأي بيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "بيلى راى بيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_Bates"
    title: "Billy Ray Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_Bates"
    title: "Billy Ray Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_Bates"
    title: "Billy Ray Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_Bates"
    title: "Billy Ray Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_Bates"
    title: "Billy Ray Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_Bates"
    title: "Billy Ray Bates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3640058"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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