# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-riley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:38:54.964Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-riley"
name: "Ruth Riley"
slug: "ruth-riley"
description: "Ruth Ellen Riley Hunter is a retired American professional basketball player, playing most recently for the Atlanta Dream in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Her Notre Dame team won the NCAA women's championship in 2001, and her Detroit Shock team won the WNBA championship in 2003 and 2006. Riley was the Most Valuable Player in the 2001 and 2003 championship series, becoming the first person to win the MVP awards in both the NCAA and the WNBA championships. She has also played on teams that won the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL) championship, the gold medal at the Olympic Games, and the 2010 EuroCup Championship. In 2019, Riley was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Riley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1979-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.08914100486223664
  historical:           15.71148666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Riley"
    title: "Ruth Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Riley"
    title: "Ruth Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ルース・ライリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth Riley"
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    title: "Ruth Riley"
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    title: "Ruth Riley"
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    title: "Ruth Riley"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%82_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Рут Райлі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump