# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-harkness
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:25:31.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-harkness"
name: "Jerry Harkness"
slug: "jerry-harkness"
description: "Jerald B. Harkness was an American professional basketball player. He played for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Indiana Pacers of the American Basketball Association (ABA). Harkness played college basketball for the Loyola Ramblers, where he was captain of the 1962–63 team that won the 1963 NCAA national championship. A consensus first-team All-American, Harkness was selected by the Knicks in the second round of the 1963 NBA draft. He was also a civil rights activist."
tagline: "American basketball player (1940–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Harkness_1963_basketball_portrait.jpg?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: "1940-05-07"
deathDate: "2021-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.9
  momentum:             13.40425531914893
  historical:           7.211376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B0%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E5%93%88%E5%85%8B%E5%B0%BC%E6%96%AF"
    title: "杰里·哈克尼斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "جيري هاركنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "جيرى هاركنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Harkness"
    title: "Jerry Harkness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Harkness"
    title: "Jerry Harkness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Harkness"
    title: "Jerry Harkness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Харкнесс, Джерри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Harkness"
    title: "Jerry Harkness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3808022"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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