# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meadowlark-lemon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:35:01.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meadowlark-lemon"
name: "Meadowlark Lemon"
slug: "meadowlark-lemon"
description: "Meadowlark Lemon was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. For 22 years, he was known as the \"Clown Prince\" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Ordained in 1986, in 1994 he started Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in Scottsdale, Arizona."
tagline: "American basketball player (1932–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meadowlark_lemon_in_1975.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: "1932-04-25"
deathDate: "2015-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.942684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 239
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501509/"
    handle:    "nm0501509"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://meadowlarkllf.org"
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مدولارک لمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Meadowlark Lemon"
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    title: "Մեդոուլարկ Լեմոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Meadowlark Lemon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump