# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cleo-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:19:29.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cleo-hill"
name: "Cleo Hill"
slug: "cleo-hill"
description: "Cleo Hill was an American professional basketball player who was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the first round of the 1961 NBA draft. A 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) guard from Newark, New Jersey and the Winston-Salem State University, Hill played in the National Basketball Association for one season with the Hawks, in 1961–62, averaging 5.5 points in 58 games. Hill was only the fifth African-American from an historically Black college and university to be taken in the first round of an NBA draft."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cleo_Hill_1961.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: "1938-05-24"
deathDate: "2015-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.89
  momentum:             2.171052631578948
  historical:           5.679986666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Hill"
    title: "Cleo Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "كليو هيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "كليو هيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%8B%E5%88%A9%E5%A5%A5%C2%B7%E5%B8%8C%E5%B0%94"
    title: "克利奥·希尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Hill"
    title: "Cleo Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Hill"
    title: "Cleo Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2919387"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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