# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-barksdale
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:48:26.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-barksdale"
name: "Don Barksdale"
slug: "don-barksdale"
description: "Donald Argee Barksdale was an American professional basketball player. He was a pioneer as an African-American basketball player, becoming the first to be named NCAA All-American, the first to play on a United States men's Olympic basketball team, and the first to play in a National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player (1923–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Barksdale_1948.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1923-03-31"
deathDate: "1993-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump