# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bo-roberson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:35.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bo-roberson"
name: "Bo Roberson"
slug: "bo-roberson"
description: "Irvin \"Bo\" Roberson (Pronounced: ROE-ber-sun) was an American track and field athlete and professional football player. At Cornell University he excelled in basketball, football, and track and field. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy he won the silver medal in the long jump, a centimeter short of the Olympic record 8.12 m gold medal jump by Ralph Boston."
tagline: "American long jumper and American football wide receiver (1935–2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1935-07-23"
deathDate: "2001-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.57
  momentum:             9.15680473372781
  historical:           11.34042533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Roberson"
    title: "Bo Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بو روبرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بو روبرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Roberson"
    title: "Bo Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Roberson"
    title: "Bo Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_Roberson"
    title: "Irvin Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بو روبرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Roberson"
    title: "Bo Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Roberson"
    title: "Bo Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Roberson"
    title: "Bo Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Roberson"
    title: "Bo Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Roberson"
    title: "Bo Roberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE"
    title: "Роберсон, Бо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887436"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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