# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/murray-wier
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:57:45.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/murray-wier"
name: "Murray Wier"
slug: "murray-wier"
description: "Murray Neal Wier, nicknamed \"Rampaging Redhead\" and \"Wizard Wier,\" was an American professional basketball player for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Waterloo Hawks. He is better known for his standout college career at the University of Iowa, however, when in 1947–48 he was named a consensus first team All-American and was also the inaugural National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Major College scoring leader at 21.0 points per game."
tagline: "American basketball player (1926–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Murray_Wier.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: "1926-12-12"
deathDate: "2016-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.76
  momentum:             2.956989247311828
  historical:           5.475342666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Wier"
    title: "Murray Wier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "موراي وير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "موراى وير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Wier"
    title: "Murray Wier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Wier"
    title: "Murray Wier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Wier"
    title: "Murray Wier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3867448"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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