# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-tatum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:47:45.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-tatum"
name: "Earl Tatum"
slug: "earl-tatum"
description: "William Earl Tatum is an American former professional basketball player from Mount Vernon, New York. He was a 6 ft 4+1⁄2 in (194 cm) 185 pounds (84 kg) guard who played high school basketball at Mount Vernon, where he was selected large-school player of the year by the New York State Sportswriters Association in 1972, and collegiately at Marquette University."
tagline: "American basketball player (born 1953)"
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: "1953-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.83
  momentum:             1.280353200883002
  historical:           6.551729333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Tatum"
    title: "Earl Tatum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "إيرل تاتوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "ايرل تاتوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Tatum"
    title: "Earl Tatum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Tatum"
    title: "Earl Tatum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Tatum"
    title: "Earl Tatum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Tatum"
    title: "Earl Tatum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1627238"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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