# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-hoppe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:06:20.798Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-hoppe"
name: "Willie Hoppe"
slug: "willie-hoppe"
description: "William Frederick Hoppe, was an internationally renowned American professional carom billiards champion. Hoppe is widely considered one of the greatest billiards players of all time and was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1966."
tagline: "American billiards player (1887–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willie_Hoppe_playing_carom_billiards_(detail)_ca._1910-1915.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1887-10-11"
deathDate: "1959-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.01008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "فيلي هوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Hoppe"
    title: "Willie Hoppe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Hoppe"
    title: "Willie Hoppe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Hoppe"
    title: "Willie Hoppe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Hoppe"
    title: "Willie Hoppe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358228"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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