# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-baird
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:47:45.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-baird"
name: "George Baird"
slug: "george-baird"
description: "George Hetzel Baird was an American sprint runner who won a gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics, breaking the world record in the process. A week later he helped to set another world record, at 3:13.4 in the 4 × 440 yard relay in London. Baird graduated from the University of Iowa and later took various jobs during the Great Depression. He assisted his brother Bill as a puppeteer, and later became an assistant professor of education at the New York University."
tagline: "Athletics competitor (1907–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Baird_1928.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1907-03-05"
deathDate: "2004-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.92758620689655
  historical:           16.13848133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "George Baird"
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    title: "George Baird"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump