# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-grant
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:44.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-grant"
name: "Dick Grant"
slug: "dick-grant"
description: "Richard Grant was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France for the United States. He also competed in the first four Boston Marathons, one of only two athletes to have done so.\nIn later life he lived in Habana, Cuba and wrote the words and music to several Presbyterian hymns."
tagline: "Canadian long distance runner (1878–1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/D%C3%A9part_du_Marathon_des_JO_1900_-_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1878-08-03"
deathDate: "1958-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.335745333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diks_Gr%C4%81nts"
    title: "Diks Grānts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ديك غرانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ديك جرانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Grant"
    title: "Dick Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Grant"
    title: "Dick Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Grant"
    title: "Dick Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Grant"
    title: "Dick Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1209665"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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