# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fab-melo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:23:04.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fab-melo"
name: "Fab Melo"
slug: "fab-melo"
description: "Fabricio Paulino de Melo was a Brazilian professional basketball player. He played one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Boston Celtics before returning to his home country and playing for Liga Sorocabana and Brasília of the Brazilian Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB). Prior to entering the NBA in 2012, he played two years of college basketball for Syracuse, where he was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore."
tagline: "Brazilian basketball player (1990–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fab_Melo_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1990-06-20"
deathDate: "2017-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.28
  momentum:             11.87340113144317
  historical:           15.01527466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فاب ميلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Melo"
    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Melo"
    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Melo"
    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Melo"
    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Melo"
    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "פאב מלו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ֆաբ Մելու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fab Melo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%B8%8C_%EB%A9%9C%EB%A3%A8"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fab Melo"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fab Melo"
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    title: "Фаб Мело"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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