# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-pitino
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:24:03.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-pitino"
name: "Rick Pitino"
slug: "rick-pitino"
description: "Richard Andrew Pitino is an American basketball coach who is the head men's basketball coach at St. John's University. He has been the head coach of several teams in NCAA Division I and in the NBA, including Boston University (1978–1983), Providence College (1985–1987), the New York Knicks (1987–1989), the University of Kentucky (1989–1997), the Boston Celtics (1997–2001), the University of Louisville (2001–2017), Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and EuroLeague (2018–2020), and Iona University (2020–2023). He was also the head coach of Greece's senior national team."
tagline: "American basketball coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Pitino_addressing_the_crowd.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1952-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.87
  momentum:             2.352511415525114
  historical:           11.86373733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/realpitino"
    handle:    "realpitino"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685704/"
    handle:    "nm0685704"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rickpitino.com"
sources:
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    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريك بيتينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CE%B9%CE%BA_%CE%A0%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF"
    title: "Ρικ Πιτίνο"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Pitino"
    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Pitino"
    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Pitino"
    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95"
    title: "ריק פיטינו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Pitino"
    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E"
    title: "リック・ピティーノ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Pitino"
    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Pitino"
    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q686052"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1865990"
    title: "Rick Pitino"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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