# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christian-steinmetz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:34:21.112Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christian-steinmetz"
name: "Christian Steinmetz"
slug: "christian-steinmetz"
description: "Christian Steinmetz was an American basketball player. He played forward for the University of Wisconsin from 1903 to 1905. He was college basketball's leading scorer in the game's first 25 years from 1895 to 1920. He became known as the \"Father of Wisconsin Basketball\" and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961."
tagline: "American basketball player (1882–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christian_Steinmetz.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: "1882-06-28"
deathDate: "1963-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.804356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "كريستيان ستينميتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Steinmetz"
    title: "Christian Steinmetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Steinmetz"
    title: "Christian Steinmetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Steinmetz"
    title: "Christian Steinmetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Steinmetz"
    title: "Christian Steinmetz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q971349"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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