# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norvel-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:07:33.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norvel-lee"
name: "Norvel Lee"
slug: "norvel-lee"
description: "Norvel L. R. Lee was an amateur boxer, Tuskegee Airman, WWII veteran, scholar, educator, field grade officer in the US Army Reserve, and youth mentor in the greater Washington D.C. area. He won the light heavyweight gold medal in boxing at the Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952 and was also awarded the Val Barker Trophy. On September 17, 2022, the Commonwealth of Virginia unveiled a historical marker honoring Lee's accomplishments. The highway near Lee's childhood home was designated the Norvel LaFallette Ray Lee Memorial Highway."
tagline: "American boxer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1924-09-22"
deathDate: "1992-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.4
  momentum:             16.12244897959184
  historical:           13.74118133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D1%96"
    title: "Норвел Лі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "نورفيل لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "نورفيل لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "نورول لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Ли, Норвел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvel_Lee"
    title: "Norvel Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3117406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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