# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guy-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:28:02.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guy-lewis"
name: "Guy Lewis"
slug: "guy-lewis"
description: "Guy Vernon Lewis II was an American basketball player and coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Houston from 1956 to 1986. Lewis led his Houston Cougars to five appearances in the Final Four of the NCAA tournament, in 1967, 1968, 1982, 1983, and 1984. His 1980s teams, nicknamed Phi Slama Jama for their slam dunks, were runners-up for the national championship in back-to-back seasons in 1983 and 1984. He was inducted into National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach (1922-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guy_Lewis%2C_circa_1972.png?width=1200"
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: "1922-03-19"
deathDate: "2015-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.901802666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%93%8B%E4%BC%8A%C2%B7%E5%8A%89%E6%98%93%E6%96%AF"
    title: "蓋伊·劉易斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "قاي لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جاى لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Lewis"
    title: "Guy Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Lewis"
    title: "Guy Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Lewis"
    title: "Guy Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Lewis"
    title: "Guy Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Lewis"
    title: "Guy Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Lewis"
    title: "Guy Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4120771"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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