# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ari-vatanen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:45:39.691Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ari-vatanen"
name: "Ari Vatanen"
slug: "ari-vatanen"
description: "Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish former rally driver and politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times. In addition, he won the 1997 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies."
tagline: "Politician and rally driver, Member of the European Parliament, winner of the 1981 World Rally Championship for Drivers"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.arivatanen.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump