# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buddy-baker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:50:13.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buddy-baker"
name: "Buddy Baker"
slug: "buddy-baker"
description: "Elzie Wylie \"Buddy\" Baker Jr. was an American professional stock car racing driver and commentator. Over the course of his 33-year racing career, he won 19 races in the NASCAR Cup Series, including the 1980 Daytona 500. Known by the nickname \"Gentle Giant\", Baker was noted for his prowess at NASCAR's superspeedways, Daytona and Talladega, at which he won a combined six races. After his racing career, he worked as a broadcaster and co-hosted a number of radio shows on Sirius XM."
tagline: "Racecar driver (1941–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BuddyBaker1960's.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-01-25"
deathDate: "2015-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.48
  momentum:             6.177669111654442
  historical:           7.34292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048302/"
    handle:    "nm0048302"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Baker"
    title: "Buddy Baker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1_(%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%82_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%82)"
    title: "بادى بيكر (سواق عربيات سباق)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Baker_(Rennfahrer)"
    title: "Buddy Baker (Rennfahrer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Baker"
    title: "Buddy Baker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Baker"
    title: "Buddy Baker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Baker"
    title: "Buddy Baker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Baker"
    title: "Buddy Baker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369796"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2175902"
    title: "Buddy Baker"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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