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Billie Jean King

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q17144&amp;oldid=2531981575" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Presidential Medal of Freedom · dated 2009
Sports team: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q7892299&amp;oldid=2397382209" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">United States Wightman Cup team · from 1961 · to 1970
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1026932&amp;oldid=2540053604" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">California State University, Los Angeles
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q2493731&amp;oldid=2435094383" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arthur Ashe Courage Award
Sports team: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1619662&amp;oldid=2478696068" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">United States Billie Jean King Cup team · from 1963 · to 1979
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q13645072&amp;oldid=2549840106" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Long Beach Polytechnic High School

Wikidata describes Billie Jean King as American tennis player (born 1943).

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