# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlos-loyzaga
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:54:03.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlos-loyzaga"
name: "Carlos Loyzaga"
slug: "carlos-loyzaga"
description: "Carlos \"Caloy\" Loyzaga y Matute was a Filipino basketball player, coach and politician. He was the most dominant basketball player of his era in the Philippines and is considered as the greatest Filipino basketball player of all time. As a member of the Philippine national team, Loyzaga was a two-time Olympian and led the Philippines to bronze at the 1954 FIBA World Championship, where he was named to the All-Tournament second team."
tagline: "Filipino basketball player (1930–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carlos_Loyzaga_1954b.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1930-08-29"
deathDate: "2016-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.42
  momentum:             7.191780821917806
  historical:           13.18369733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "كارلوس لويزاجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارلوس لويزاجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%99%D7%96%D7%90%D7%92%D7%94"
    title: "קרלוס לויזאגה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B6%E3%82%AC"
    title: "カルロス・ロイザガ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81"
    title: "Лойсага, Карлос"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Loyzaga"
    title: "Carlos Loyzaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2279745"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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