# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-whitham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:50:00.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-whitham"
name: "James Whitham"
slug: "james-whitham"
description: "James Michael \"Jamie\" Whitham, is an English former professional motorcycle road racer. He raced in most major British and international championships, winning the British championship twice. The readers of Motorcycle News voted him 'Man of the Year' in both 1991 and 1996."
tagline: "British motorcycle racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Whitham.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1966-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             7.225481978206203
  historical:           5.07398
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Jimwhit69"
    handle:    "Jimwhit69"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitham"
    title: "James Whitham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitham"
    title: "James Whitham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitham"
    title: "James Whitham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitham"
    title: "James Whitham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitham"
    title: "James Whitham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1157172"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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