# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-verhaas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:24:21.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-verhaas"
name: "Jan Verhaas"
slug: "jan-verhaas"
description: "Jan Verhaas is a Dutch snooker and pool referee, best known for refereeing on the World Snooker Tour (WST) from 1991 to 2025. At the 2003 World Snooker Championship, he became the first referee from outside the UK to referee a World Championship final. He also refereed the World Championship finals in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2017, as well as eight Masters finals and four UK Championship finals."
tagline: "Dutch snooker referee"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Verhaas_at_Snooker_German_Masters_(DerHexer)_2013-01-30_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1966-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.49013866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/janverhaas"
    handle:    "janverhaas"
sources:
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    title: "Ян Верхас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ян Верхаас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas"
    title: "Jan Verhaas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas"
    title: "Jan Verhaas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas"
    title: "Jan Verhaas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas"
    title: "Jan Verhaas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas"
    title: "Jan Verhaas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas"
    title: "Jan Verhaas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas"
    title: "Jan Verhaas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD"
    title: "Верхас, Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Јан Верхас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Verhaas"
    title: "Jan Verhaas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1590320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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