# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gillian-gilks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:44:55.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gillian-gilks"
name: "Gillian Gilks"
slug: "gillian-gilks"
description: "Gillian M. Gilks is an English former badminton player who won numerous major titles in all three events between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. Gilks was the first ever women's singles world number one in the first IBF world ranking release in 1978."
tagline: "Badminton player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gillian_Gilks_1969.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1950-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.35
  momentum:             9.560439560439558
  historical:           5.883046666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Gilks"
    title: "Gillian Gilks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Gilks"
    title: "Gillian Gilks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Gilks"
    title: "Gillian Gilks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E8%8E%89%E5%AE%89%C2%B7%E5%90%89%E7%88%BE%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF"
    title: "吉莉安·吉爾克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Gilks"
    title: "Gillian Gilks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Gilks"
    title: "Gillian Gilks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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