# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:17:29.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-thompson"
name: "John Thompson"
slug: "john-thompson"
description: "John Robert Thompson Jr. was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 1984. Thompson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach (1941-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Thompson_(cropped).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: "1941-09-02"
deathDate: "2020-08-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.02
  momentum:             2.646087580760948
  historical:           10.38375466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Thompson (bäsetaglöpädan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "جون طومسون (كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون تومسون (لاعب كرة السله)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_(basketball)"
    title: "John Thompson (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_(baloncestista)"
    title: "John Thompson (baloncestista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_(koripalloilija)"
    title: "John Thompson (koripalloilija)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson"
    title: "John Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_(kwallon_kwando)"
    title: "John Thompson (kwallon kwando)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_(cestista_1941)"
    title: "John Thompson (cestista 1941)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_(trener_koszykarski)"
    title: "John Thompson (trener koszykarski)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_(basketball)"
    title: "John Thompson (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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