# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/penny-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:55:41.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/penny-taylor"
name: "Penny Taylor"
slug: "penny-taylor"
description: "Penelope Jane Taylor is an Australian former professional basketball player and assistant coach. During her 19-year career, Taylor spent the most time with the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, where she won three championships. She also won the WNBL title with her first club, the Australian Institute of Sport, and played in China, Italy, Turkey and Russia. As part of the Australian woman's national team, Taylor won two Olympic medals and led the Australian Opals to a gold medal at the World Championships, winning tournament MVP honours ahead of teammate Lauren Jackson."
tagline: "Australian basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phoenix_Mercury_at_the_White_House_to_honor_2014_Championship_(cropped_to_focus_on_Penny_Taylor).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1981-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.45
  momentum:             0.6552828175026681
  historical:           18.91304533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12575002/"
    handle:    "nm12575002"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BD%AD%E5%A6%AE%C2%B7%E6%B3%B0%E5%8B%92"
    title: "彭妮·泰勒"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "بيني تايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "بينى تايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor-Gil"
    title: "Penny Taylor-Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor-Gil"
    title: "Penny Taylor-Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "پنی تیلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A8"
    title: "פני טיילור"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9A%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ペニー・テイラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penija_Teilora"
    title: "Penija Teilora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor-Gil"
    title: "Penny Taylor-Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Тейлор, Пенни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Taylor"
    title: "Penny Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Пенні Тейлор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264440"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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