# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-paula-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:58:31.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-paula-silva"
name: "Maria Paula Silva"
slug: "maria-paula-silva"
description: "Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva, nicknamed \"Magic Paula\", is a retired Brazilian women's basketball player. She is considered one of the greatest players in her country, along with Hortência Marcari and Janeth Arcain. For Brazil women's national basketball team, Paula is the second biggest scorer, with 723 points and holds the record for caps with 45 games, being in two Olympic Games and six World Championships."
tagline: "Brazilian basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Paula_Gon%C3%A7alves_da_Silva.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1962-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.00396533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MagicPaula"
    handle:    "MagicPaula"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B0"
    title: "Марія Паула Сілва"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "ماريا باولا سيلفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "ماريا پولا سيلفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Gon%C3%A7alves_da_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Gon%C3%A7alves_da_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ماریا پائولا سیلوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Gon%C3%A7alves_da_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%94"
    title: "מריה פאולה סילבה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Gon%C3%A7alves_da_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Paula"
    title: "Magic Paula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Силва, Мария Паула"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Paula_Silva"
    title: "Maria Paula Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1797130"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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