# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvia-fowles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:30:30.333Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvia-fowles"
name: "Sylvia Fowles"
slug: "sylvia-fowles"
description: "Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Portland Fire of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She previously played for the Chicago Sky and Minnesota Lynx during her WNBA career. She won the WNBA MVP Award in 2017 and the WNBA Defensive Player of the Year award four times. She led the Lynx to win the WNBA Championship in 2015 and 2017, and she was named the MVP of the WNBA Finals both times. In 2020, Fowles overtook Rebekkah Brunson to become the WNBA's career leader in rebounds. In 2025, Fowles was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sylvia_Fowles_WNBA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
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  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1985-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.088678549744122
  historical:           21.16610933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "sylvia_fowles"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump