# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-stokes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:04:27.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-stokes"
name: "Maurice Stokes"
slug: "maurice-stokes"
description: "Maurice Stokes was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Cincinnati/Rochester Royals of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1958. Stokes was a three-time NBA All-Star, a three-time All-NBA Second Team member and the 1956 NBA Rookie of the Year. His career – and later his life – was cut short by a debilitating brain injury and paralysis."
tagline: "American basketball player (1933–1970)"
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: "1933-06-17"
deathDate: "1970-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.28600933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Stokes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Stokes"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Stokes"
    title: "Maurice Stokes"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Stokes"
    title: "Maurice Stokes"
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    title: "Maurice Stokes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מוריס סטוקס"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump