# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferenc-hepp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:13.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferenc-hepp"
name: "Ferenc Hepp"
slug: "ferenc-hepp"
description: "Dr. Ferenc Hepp was a basketball administrator. He is considered \"the father of Hungarian basketball\". He became the president of the Hungarian Basketball Federation in 1954 and was a member of the FIBA Central Board in the 1950s and 1960s. He was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1981. In 2007, he was enshrined as a contributor into the FIBA Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Hungarian basketball administrator (1909-1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hepp_Ferenc_(Mih%C3%A1ly_G%C3%A1bor)%2C_2008_Budapest.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-11-03"
deathDate: "1980-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.602196
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Hepp"
    title: "Ferenc Hepp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Hepp_(altlerneja_instruisto)"
    title: "Ferenc Hepp (altlerneja instruisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Hepp"
    title: "Ferenc Hepp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepp_Ferenc_(sportvezet%C5%91)"
    title: "Hepp Ferenc (sportvezető)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Hepp"
    title: "Ferenc Hepp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3068751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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