# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-manigault
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:37:08.288Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-manigault"
name: "Earl Manigault"
slug: "earl-manigault"
description: "Earl Manigault was an American street basketball player who was nicknamed \"the Goat\" or \"the Lip\". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players never to have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named in ESPN's \"Elite 24: Rucker Park legends\"."
tagline: "American street basketball player (1944-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Earl_Manigault.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: "1944-09-07"
deathDate: "1998-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.39
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.153129333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542399/"
    handle:    "nm0542399"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%84%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E9%A6%AC%E5%B0%BC%E6%88%88"
    title: "厄爾·馬尼戈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA"
    title: "يارل مانيجاولت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AA%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%82"
    title: "Ърл Менигот"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Manigault"
    title: "Earl Manigault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Manigault"
    title: "Earl Manigault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Manigault"
    title: "Earl Manigault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Manigault"
    title: "Earl Manigault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Manigault"
    title: "Earl Manigault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Manigault"
    title: "Earl Manigault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1277121"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6135300"
    title: "Earl Manigault"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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