# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gil-santos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:07:20.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gil-santos"
name: "Gil Santos"
slug: "gil-santos"
description: "Gilbert A. Santos was an American radio play-by-play announcer based in the Boston area. He called games for the New England Patriots of the National Football League and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association, served as the morning sports reporter for WBZ radio in Boston. He was an inductee of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American sports announcer (1938–2018)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ad/Gil_Santos.png/330px-Gil_Santos.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1938-04-19"
deathDate: "2018-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.74
  momentum:             7.272727272727272
  historical:           5.478114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Santos"
    title: "Gil Santos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جيل سانتوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جيل سانتوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Santos"
    title: "Gil Santos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Santos"
    title: "Gil Santos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Santos"
    title: "Gil Santos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1523848"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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