# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-falkenburg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:58:48.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-falkenburg"
name: "Bob Falkenburg"
slug: "bob-falkenburg"
description: "Robert Falkenburg was a Brazilian-American tennis player and entrepreneur. He is best known for winning the Men's Singles at the 1948 Wimbledon Championships and introducing soft ice cream and American fast food to Brazil in 1952. He founded the Brazilian fast food chain Bob's."
tagline: "American tennis player (1926–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BOB_FALKENBRUG_1952.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Tennis Players"
  slug: "tennis-players"
profileType:
  name: "Tennis Player"
  slug: "tennis-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314"
birthDate: "1926-01-29"
deathDate: "2022-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.14
  momentum:             12.7459324155194
  historical:           17.52153066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوب فالكينبورج"
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    title: "Robert Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Falkenburg"
    title: "Bob Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falkenburg"
    title: "Robert Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Falkenburg"
    title: "Bob Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bob Falkenburg"
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    title: "Bob Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Falkenburg"
    title: "Bob Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bob Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falkenburg"
    title: "Robert Falkenburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Falkenburg"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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