# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-a-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:48.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-a-brown"
name: "Walter A. Brown"
slug: "walter-a-brown"
description: "Walter Augustine Brown was an American sports executive. He was the founder and original owner of the Boston Celtics, operated the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, and served as president of the Boston Athletic Association. In ice hockey, he coached the Boston Olympics to five Eastern Hockey League championships, owned the Boston Bruins, and served as president of the International Ice Hockey Federation. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965, and IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997."
tagline: "American sports businessman (1905–1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_A._Brown%2C_Boston_Celtics%2C_1960.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1905-02-10"
deathDate: "1964-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.98
  momentum:             7.614508869473127
  historical:           11.57284133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Walter A. Brown"
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    title: "Walter Brown"
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    title: "Ուոլթեր Բրաուն"
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    title: "Walter Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump