# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-friedrichs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:54:16.518Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-friedrichs"
name: "George Friedrichs"
slug: "george-friedrichs"
description: "George Shelby Friedrichs Jr., known as \"Buddy\", was an American sailor and Olympic champion. He was Dragon Class World Champion in 1967 before competing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City (sailing events in Acapulco, where he received a gold medal in the Dragon class as helmsman on the red-painted boat WILLIWAW. Serving as crew members on WILLIWAW were Gerald \"Click\" Schreck and Barton Jahncke."
tagline: "Sailor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-02-15"
deathDate: "1991-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.468538666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%94%E6%B2%BB%C2%B7%E5%BC%97%E9%87%8C%E5%BE%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF"
    title: "乔治·弗里德里克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedrichs"
    title: "George Friedrichs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedrichs"
    title: "George Friedrichs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedrichs"
    title: "George Friedrichs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B4"
    title: "جورج فریدریش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedrichs"
    title: "George Friedrichs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedrichs"
    title: "George Friedrichs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedrichs"
    title: "George Friedrichs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%96%D1%85%D1%81"
    title: "Джордж Фрідріхс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101585"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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