# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/florin-balaban
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:24:18.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/florin-balaban"
name: "Florin Balaban"
slug: "florin-balaban"
description: "Florin Balaban is a Romanian cartoonist, illustrator and former badminton player. He is the first Romanian badminton player to compete in the Olympic Games."
tagline: "Badminton player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FlorinBalaban01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1968-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.26
  momentum:             25
  historical:           6.802412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Флорін Балабан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فلورين بالابان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_Balaban"
    title: "Florin Balaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_Balaban"
    title: "Florin Balaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_Balaban"
    title: "Florin Balaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_Balaban"
    title: "Florin Balaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_Balaban"
    title: "Florin Balaban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Балабан, Флорин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q470785"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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