# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-hightower
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:17:03.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-hightower"
name: "Wayne Hightower"
slug: "wayne-hightower"
description: "Wayne A. Hightower was an American professional basketball player who had a long and productive career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA) from 1962 to 1972. He stood 6 foot 8 inches (2.03 m) and primarily played the forward positions. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended Overbrook High School from 1955 to 1958, where he played basketball. His professional career began in 1961 after his departure from the University of Kansas at the end his junior year. Hightower stated he did so to financially support his family, but he would have been ineligible to play basketball his senior year due to his poor academic standing."
tagline: "American basketball player (1940-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wayne_Hightower_1966.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: "1940-01-14"
deathDate: "2002-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.280886666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "韦恩·海托华"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وين هايتاور"
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    title: "وين هايتاور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Hightower"
    title: "Wayne Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Hightower"
    title: "Wayne Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Hightower"
    title: "Wayne Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Hightower"
    title: "Wayne Hightower"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Hightower"
    title: "Wayne Hightower"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хайтауэр, Уэйн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump