# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keith-ballard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:50:52.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keith-ballard"
name: "Keith Ballard"
slug: "keith-ballard"
description: "Keith Galen Ballard is an American former professional ice hockey player. A defenseman, he previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Phoenix Coyotes, Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks and Minnesota Wild. He played college hockey for the Minnesota Golden Gophers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) for three seasons. After his freshman year, he was selected 11th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2002 NHL entry draft. Before he made his NHL debut, he was traded twice – initially to the Colorado Avalanche, then to the Phoenix Coyotes. He played his professional rookie season in 2004–05 with the Coyotes' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Utah Grizzlies, then debuted with Phoenix the following season. After three years, he was traded to the Florida Panthers, where he spent two seasons before being dealt to Vancouver at the 2010 NHL entry draft."
tagline: "American ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Keith_Ballard_03-2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1982-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.760009333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Keith Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "كيث بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كيث بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ballard"
    title: "Keith Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ballard"
    title: "Keith Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ballard"
    title: "Keith Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ballard"
    title: "Keith Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ballard"
    title: "Keith Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Баллард, Кит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ballard"
    title: "Keith Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1738043"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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