# Ora Washington

> Ora Belle Washington was an American athlete from the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Washington excelled in both tennis and basketball, and she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018. Black newspapers referred to her as "Queen Ora" and the "Queen of Two Courts." According to Arthur Ashe, she may have been one of best tennis players of all time and "the first Black female to dominate a sport".

*American tennis player (1898-1971)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/ora-washington

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Tennis Player ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314))
- **Category:** Tennis Players
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1898-01-23
- **Died:** 1971-05-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 40.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 6.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 40.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Вашингтон, Ора](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B0)
- [اورا واشينجتون](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86)
- [Ora Washington](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora_Washington)
- [Ora Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora_Washington)
- [اورا واشینگتن](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%AA%D9%86)
- [אורה וושינגטון](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9F)
- [Ora Washington](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora_Washington)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7099205)

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