# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-mayol
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:01:18.213Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-mayol"
name: "Jacques Mayol"
slug: "jacques-mayol"
description: "Jacques Mayol was a French diver and the holder of many world records in free diving. The 1988 film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson, was inspired by his life story and that of his friend, Enzo Maiorca. Mayol was one of the screenwriters and authored the book Homo Delphinus: the Dolphin Within Man of his philosophy about the aquatic origins of humans."
tagline: "Holder of many world records in free diving"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Record_mondial_de_poids_constant_-_62_m_en_1989.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-04-01"
deathDate: "2001-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.21
  momentum:             3.444522471910113
  historical:           19.177584
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0562936"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump