# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-van-alen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:15:19.096Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-van-alen"
name: "Jimmy Van Alen"
slug: "jimmy-van-alen"
description: "James Henry Van Alen II was an American tennis official and former player. Van Alen was a poet, musician, publisher, civic leader, and raconteur. He was best known for his influence of tennis, especially for the tiebreak and for being the founder and primary benefactor of the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino, the largest tennis museum in the world, which he gave to the United States Tennis Association in 1954, saving the national landmark from a proposed car park."
tagline: "Founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame (1902–1991)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/International_Tennis_Hall_of_Fame.jpg/330px-International_Tennis_Hall_of_Fame.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Tennis Players"
  slug: "tennis-players"
profileType:
  name: "Tennis Player"
  slug: "tennis-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314"
birthDate: "1902-09-19"
deathDate: "1991-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.78
  momentum:             4.554621848739496
  historical:           9.164509333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Alen"
    title: "James Van Alen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جيمي فان ألين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Alen"
    title: "James Van Alen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Van_Alen"
    title: "Jimmy Van Alen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Van_Alen"
    title: "Jimmy Van Alen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Van_Alen"
    title: "Jimmy Van Alen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Alen"
    title: "James Van Alen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Alen"
    title: "James Van Alen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Van_Alen"
    title: "Jimmy Van Alen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Ван Ален, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q931917"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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