# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kayla-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:51:22.782Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kayla-thornton"
name: "Kayla Thornton"
slug: "kayla-thornton"
description: "Kayla Bianca Thornton is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She has previously played in the WNBA for the Dallas Wings and New York Liberty, with whom she won the 2024 WNBA Championship. In college, Thornton played for the University of Texas at El Paso."
tagline: "American basketball player (born 1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thornton-20180523.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1992-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.17
  momentum:             4.058441558441559
  historical:           7.544324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Торнтон, Кейла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كايلا ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayla_Thornton"
    title: "Kayla Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayla_Thornton"
    title: "Kayla Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "کایلا تورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayla_Thornton"
    title: "Kayla Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BC%80%EC%9D%BC%EB%9D%BC_%EC%86%90%ED%84%B4"
    title: "케일라 손턴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayla_Thornton"
    title: "Kayla Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43422347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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