# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doug-hepburn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:19:30.026Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doug-hepburn"
name: "Doug Hepburn"
slug: "doug-hepburn"
description: "Douglas Ivan Hepburn was a Canadian strongman and weightlifter. He won weightlifting gold medals in the 1953 World Weightlifting Championships as well as the 1954 British Empire Games in the heavyweight division. He is also known as the first man to bench press 400, 450, 500, and 550 pounds (raw). During the 1950s he was publicly known as the \"world's strongest man\" for his many feats of strength. Hepburn has been inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (1953), Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1955), and the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame (1966)."
tagline: "Canadian strongman and weightlifter (1926–2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/11/Doug_Hepburn.jpg/330px-Doug_Hepburn.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1926-09-16"
deathDate: "2000-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.762997333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hepburn"
    title: "Doug Hepburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%BA_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "دوغ هيبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hepburn"
    title: "Doug Hepburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hepburn"
    title: "Doug Hepburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hepburn"
    title: "Doug Hepburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%AF_%D9%87%D9%BE%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "داگ هپبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hepburn"
    title: "Doug Hepburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1251754"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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