# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uvis-balinskis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:19:07.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uvis-balinskis"
name: "Uvis Balinskis"
slug: "uvis-balinskis"
description: "Uvis Jānis Balinskis is a Latvian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He made his NHL debut with Florida in 2023, and won the Stanley Cup with the Panthers in 2025. Prior to the NHL Balinskis played several years in different European leagues, with his first senior professional games coming in 2015. Internationally Balinskis has represented the Latvian national team at several World Championships, and won a bronze medal in 2023."
tagline: "Latvian ice hockey player (born 1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Latvijas_hokeja_izlases_sveik%C5%A1ana_-_Uvis_J%C4%81nis_Balinskis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1996-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.49
  momentum:             12.63157894736842
  historical:           9.697950666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/ufelss/"
    handle:    "ufelss"
sources:
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    title: "Увіс Балінскіс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اڤيس چانيس بالينسكيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Uvis Balinskis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvis_Balinskis"
    title: "Uvis Balinskis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvis_Balinskis"
    title: "Uvis Balinskis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvis_Balinskis"
    title: "Uvis Balinskis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvis_J%C4%81nis_Balinskis"
    title: "Uvis Jānis Balinskis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvis_J%C4%81nis_Balinskis"
    title: "Uvis Jānis Balinskis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvis_J%C4%81nis_Balinskis"
    title: "Uvis Jānis Balinskis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Балинскис, Увис Янис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Увис Балинскис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvis_Balinskis"
    title: "Uvis Balinskis"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29913994"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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