# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-calhoun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:19:33.179Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-calhoun"
name: "Jim Calhoun"
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description: "James A. Calhoun is an American former college basketball coach. He is best known for his tenure as head coach of the University of Connecticut (UConn) men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and won seventeen Big East Championships, which include 7 Big East tournament championships and 10 Big East regular season. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his NCAA Division I career with 873 victories, ranking 11th all time as of February 2019. From 2018 to 2021, he served as head coach of the University of Saint Joseph men's basketball team. Calhoun is one of only six coaches in NCAA Division I history to win three or more championships, and he is widely considered one of the greatest coaches of all time. In 2005, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach"
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birthDate: "1942-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump