# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-hettema
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:22:08.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-hettema"
name: "Jan Hettema"
slug: "jan-hettema"
description: "Jan Hettema was a South African cyclist. He competed in three events at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was also a successful rally driver and won the South African National Rally Championship five times. He was killed during an armed robbery at his smallholding in Tweedrag near Boschkop, Pretoria on 29 June 2016."
tagline: "South African cyclist and rally driver"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Jan_Hettema%2C_circa_1950s.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1933-10-27"
deathDate: "2016-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.81
  momentum:             17.06349206349206
  historical:           7.002736000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD"
    title: "Хеттема, Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hettema"
    title: "Jan Hettema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "چان هيتيما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hettema"
    title: "Jan Hettema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hettema"
    title: "Jan Hettema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hettema"
    title: "Jan Hettema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hettema"
    title: "Jan Hettema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hettema"
    title: "Jan Hettema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17411198"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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