# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hideo-kanaya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:58:46.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hideo-kanaya"
name: "Hideo Kanaya"
slug: "hideo-kanaya"
description: "Hideo Kanaya  was a Japanese professional motorcycle racer and motorcycle racing team manager. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world championships from 1967 to 1975. He dominated Japanese road racing in the early 1970s and was the first Japanese rider to win a world championship 500cc Grand Prix race. Although Kanaya was a competitive racer, he was never allowed to compete in a full season in the world championships as, his main responsibility was as a test rider in Japan."
tagline: "Japanese motorcycle racer (1945-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hideo_Kanaya_c1973.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1945-02-03"
deathDate: "2013-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.92
  momentum:             2.631578947368421
  historical:           6.759253333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kanaya"
    title: "Hideo Kanaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "هيديو كانايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kanaya"
    title: "Hideo Kanaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kanaya"
    title: "Hideo Kanaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kanaya"
    title: "Hideo Kanaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kanaya"
    title: "Hideo Kanaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E8%B0%B7%E7%A7%80%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "金谷秀夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3785483"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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