# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-lebow
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:35:37.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-lebow"
name: "Fred Lebow"
slug: "fred-lebow"
description: "Fred Lebow, born Fischel Lebowitz, was a Holocaust survivor, runner, race director, and founder of the New York City Marathon. Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with more than 52,000 finishers in 2018. He was posthumously inducted into the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in 2001."
tagline: "American distance runner (1932–1994)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/F.Lebow.jpg"
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: "1932-06-03"
deathDate: "1994-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.553601333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lebow"
    title: "Fred Lebow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lebow"
    title: "Fred Lebow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lebow"
    title: "Fred Lebow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lebow"
    title: "Fred Lebow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lebow"
    title: "Fred Lebow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95"
    title: "פרד ליבו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lebow"
    title: "Fred Lebow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705507"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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