# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-whittington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:26:38.889Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-whittington"
name: "Don Whittington"
slug: "don-whittington"
description: "Reginald Donald Whittington is an American former racing driver from Lubbock, Texas, who won the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans together with his brother Bill Whittington and Klaus Ludwig in a Porsche 935, although Ludwig, a multiple winner at Le Mans and elsewhere, did most of the driving in the heavy rain as the brothers did not have any real racing experience prior to the late 1970s. Don's brother Dale also competed in open wheel racing. His father, Don Whittington, Sr., was also an American racing driver in the USAC National Championship from 1957 to 1959."
tagline: "American racing driver"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Porsche935Whittington.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1946-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.440392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Whittington"
    title: "Don Whittington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دون ويتينجتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Whittington"
    title: "Don Whittington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Whittington"
    title: "Don Whittington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Whittington"
    title: "Don Whittington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Whittington"
    title: "Don Whittington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Whittington"
    title: "Don Whittington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Whittington"
    title: "Don Whittington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457463"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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