# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-baez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:20:25.710Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juan-baez"
name: "Juan Báez"
slug: "juan-baez"
description: "Juan Báez , also known as \"Johnny\" and \"El Indio de la Vía\", was a Puerto Rican basketball player. He played from 1953 to 1969 in Puerto Rico's Superior Basketball League and from 1957 to 1961 with the Real Madrid basketball Spanish basketball team in Europe. In 1957, Báez was named the league's Most Valuable Player (MVP) and points leader. In 2007, Báez was awarded Puerto Rico's top sports award, the Puerto Rico Olympic Medal of Honor. Báez was also inducted into Puerto Rico's Sports Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Puerto Rican basketball player (1935–2022)"
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: "1935-04-14"
deathDate: "2022-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.203060000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ram%C3%B3n_B%C3%A1ez"
    title: "Juan Ramón Báez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "خوان بايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "چوان بايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_B%C3%A1ez"
    title: "Juan Báez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_B%C3%A1ez"
    title: "Juan Báez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ram%C3%B3n_B%C3%A1ez"
    title: "Juan Ramón Báez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_B%C3%A1ez"
    title: "Juan Báez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_B%C3%A1ez"
    title: "Johnny Báez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3810782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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