# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freddie-laker
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:18:58.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freddie-laker"
name: "Freddie Laker"
slug: "freddie-laker"
description: "Sir Frederick Alfred Laker was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982. Known as Freddie Laker, he was one of the first airline owners to adopt the \"low cost / no-frills\" airline business model that has since proven to be successful worldwide when employed by companies such as Ryanair, Southwest Airlines, easyJet, Norwegian Air, and AirAsia."
tagline: "British businessman (1922–2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Freddie_Laker.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1922-08-06"
deathDate: "2006-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.96
  momentum:             2.91588785046729
  historical:           7.755298666666667
  currentAttention:     16.1993769470405
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%92_%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "فریڈی لے کر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "فريدى لاكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker"
    title: "Freddie Laker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker"
    title: "Freddie Laker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker"
    title: "Freddie Laker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker"
    title: "Freddie Laker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker"
    title: "Freddie Laker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker"
    title: "Freddie Laker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker"
    title: "Freddie Laker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1349086"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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