# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/duncan-white
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:20:12.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/duncan-white"
name: "Duncan White"
slug: "duncan-white"
description: "Major Deshamanya Duncan M. White MBE, ED was a Sri Lankan sportsman. He was the first Ceylonese athlete to win an Olympic medal, winning silver in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. He was also the second South Asian to have won an Olympic medal in track and field after Norman Pritchard of India, with the third being Susanthika Jayasinghe, another Sri Lankan, who won a silver medal in the 200 metres in 2000."
tagline: "Ceylonese athlete (1918–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Duncan_white.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1918-03-01"
deathDate: "1998-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           14.034632
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump