# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dean-meminger
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:27:53.022Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dean-meminger"
name: "Dean Meminger"
slug: "dean-meminger"
description: "Dean Peter \"the Dream\" Meminger was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for Marquette where he was the NIT MVP in 1970 and a Consensus first-team All-American in 1971. He later played professionally in the NBA for six seasons, winning the NBA championship with the New York Knicks in 1973. Following his playing career, Meminger went into coaching and in 1980 he led the New York Stars to the WBL championship."
tagline: "American basketball player, coach (1948–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dean_Meminger_Marquette.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: "1948-05-13"
deathDate: "2013-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.97
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.266549333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "迪恩·梅明格"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دين ميمينجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دين ميمينجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Meminger"
    title: "Dean Meminger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Meminger"
    title: "Dean Meminger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Meminger"
    title: "Dean Meminger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Meminger"
    title: "Dean Meminger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Meminger"
    title: "Dean Meminger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Meminger"
    title: "Dean Meminger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Meminger"
    title: "Dean Meminger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2340309"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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