# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-gates
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:27:14.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-gates"
name: "Frank Gates"
slug: "frank-gates"
description: "Ben Frank Gates was an American professional basketball player who spent two seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL) and one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). During the 1946–47 NBL season, Gates played for the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons and later the Anderson Duffey Packers, who he re-signed with for the 1948–49 season. He attended Sam Houston State University."
tagline: "Basketball player (1920–1978)"
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: "1920-04-12"
deathDate: "1978-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.535277333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E5%85%B0%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E7%9B%96%E8%8C%A8"
    title: "弗兰克·盖茨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانك غيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانك جيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gates_(basketball)"
    title: "Frank Gates (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gates"
    title: "Frank Gates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gates"
    title: "Frank Gates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA"
    title: "Гейтс, Фрэнк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751818"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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