# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-felix
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:47.863Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-felix"
name: "Ray Felix"
slug: "ray-felix"
description: "Raymond Darlington Felix Sr. was an American professional basketball player. He was born in New York City. He played high school basketball at Metropolitan High School in New York and college basketball at Long Island University. Felix was drafted No. 1 overall pick in the 1953 NBA draft, the first African American first selection in NBA history."
tagline: "American basketball player (1930–1991)"
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: "1930-12-10"
deathDate: "1991-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.460516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "雷·菲利克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "راي فيليكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راى فيليكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Felix"
    title: "Ray Felix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Felix"
    title: "Ray Felix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Felix"
    title: "Ray Felix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "ריי פליקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Felix"
    title: "Ray Felix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "レイ・フェリックス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Felix"
    title: "Ray Felix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Felix"
    title: "Ray Felix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Felix"
    title: "Ray Felix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Феликс, Рэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Felix"
    title: "Ray Felix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384545"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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