# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-hawkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:00:00.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-hawkins"
name: "Tom Hawkins"
slug: "tom-hawkins"
description: "Thomas Jerome \"Tommy\" Hawkins was an American professional basketball player. He played ten seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers and Cincinnati Royals, often in the role of sixth man. His teams reached the NBA playoffs every season of his career, and went to the NBA Finals three times. While still playing professional basketball, in 1966 he founded Athletes for a Better America, in Los Angeles."
tagline: "American basketball player (1936–2017)"
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: "1936-12-22"
deathDate: "2017-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.097986666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A4%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E9%9C%8D%E9%87%91%E6%96%AF"
    title: "汤姆·霍金斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "توم هوكينز (كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "توم هوكينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hokins"
    title: "Tom Hokins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hawkins_(basketball)"
    title: "Tom Hawkins (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hawkins"
    title: "Tom Hawkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hawkins"
    title: "Tom Hawkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hawkins"
    title: "Tom Hawkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC"
    title: "Хокинс, Том"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3661316"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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