# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dean-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:39:54.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dean-smith"
name: "Dean Smith"
slug: "dean-smith"
description: "Dean Edwards Smith was an American men's college basketball head coach. Called a \"coaching legend\" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time.[a] Smith had the ninth-highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach (77.6%). Smith's career total of 879 wins lasted until 2005 when Pat Summitt surpassed him with her 880th victory. During his tenure as head coach, North Carolina won two national championships and appeared in 11 Final Fours. Smith played college basketball at the University of Kansas, where he won a national championship in 1952 playing for Hall of fame coach Phog Allen."
tagline: "American basketball coach (1931–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dean_Smith_1973.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: "1931-02-28"
deathDate: "2015-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.977495672244662
  historical:           18.19822133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 245
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0807912/"
    handle:    "nm0807912"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump