# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-boston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:45:59.560Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-boston"
name: "Ralph Boston"
slug: "ralph-boston"
description: "Ralph Harold Boston was an American track athlete who received three Olympic medals and became the first person to break the 27 feet (8.2 m) barrier in the long jump."
tagline: "Olympic athlete (1939–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_Boston_1960.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1939-05-09"
deathDate: "2023-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump