# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hein-verbruggen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:42:41.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hein-verbruggen"
name: "Hein Verbruggen"
slug: "hein-verbruggen"
description: "Hein Verbruggen was a Dutch sports administrator who was president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) from 1991 until 2005 and president of SportAccord from 2004 to 2013. He was an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 2008. Previously, he was a member of the IOC and Chairman of the Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008. He is highly suspected to have protected Lance Armstrong."
tagline: "International Olympic Committee member (1941–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Verbruggen_Henricus_c_Kimmage_Paul_Jugement_du_26_mai_2016.pdf?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1941-06-21"
deathDate: "2017-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46
  momentum:             9.986984412284235
  historical:           7.420268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Hein Verbruggen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_Verbruggen"
    title: "Hein Verbruggen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_Verbruggen"
    title: "Hein Verbruggen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_Verbruggen"
    title: "Hein Verbruggen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_Verbruggen"
    title: "Hein Verbruggen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_Verbruggen"
    title: "Hein Verbruggen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_Verbruggen"
    title: "Hein Verbruggen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_Verbruggen"
    title: "Hein Verbruggen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1595964"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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