# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lute-olson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:26:46.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lute-olson"
name: "Lute Olson"
slug: "lute-olson"
description: "Robert Luther \"Lute\" Olson was an American basketball coach, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats men's team for 24 years. He was also head coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes for nine years and Long Beach State 49ers for one season. Known for player development and great recruiting, many of his former players have gone on to have impressive careers in the NBA. On October 23, 2008, Olson announced his retirement from coaching. Olson died on August 27, 2020, in Tucson, Arizona. He was 85 years old."
tagline: "Basketball player and coach (1934-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lute_Olson_2007_vs_Stanford.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: "1934-09-22"
deathDate: "2020-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lute Olson"
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    title: "Lute Olson"
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    title: "Lute Olson"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute_Olson"
    title: "Lute Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute_Olson"
    title: "Lute Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute_Olson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump