# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mclendon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:38:41.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mclendon"
name: "John McLendon"
slug: "john-mclendon"
description: "John B. McLendon Jr. was an American basketball coach who is recognized as the first African American basketball coach at a predominantly white university and the first African American head coach in any professional sport. He was a major contributor to the development of modern basketball and coached on both the college and professional levels during his career. He has been enshrined three times in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and also inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball coach (1915–1999)"
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: "1915-04-05"
deathDate: "1999-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.685890666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLendon"
    title: "John McLendon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون مكليندون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLendon"
    title: "John McLendon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLendon"
    title: "John McLendon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLendon"
    title: "John McLendon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLendon"
    title: "John McLendon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809475"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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