# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-gola
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:56:14.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-gola"
name: "Tom Gola"
slug: "tom-gola"
description: "Thomas Joseph Gola was an American basketball player and politician. He is widely considered one of the greatest NCAA basketball players of all time. Gola was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1976. He led his high school team to the Philadelphia Catholic League championship, his college team to the National Invitation Tournament championship and the NCAA championship, and was on the Philadelphia Warriors 1956 championship team, all in the space of six years."
tagline: "American basketball player and politician (1933-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Gola_1953.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: "1933-01-13"
deathDate: "2014-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.93297866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "汤姆·古拉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Gola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC"
    title: "Гола, Том"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gola"
    title: "Tom Gola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gola"
    title: "Tom Gola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gola"
    title: "Tom Gola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gola"
    title: "Tom Gola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Gola"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Gola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Гола, Том"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump