# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-mcrae
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:27:55.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-mcrae"
name: "Jimmy McRae"
slug: "jimmy-mcrae"
description: "James Steele McRae is a Scottish former rally driver. He was highly successful in the British Rally Championship, winning the title a record five times in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987 and 1988 which as of 2023 still stands. In the European Rally Championship for drivers, he was runner-up in 1982, while his highest placing in the World Rally Championship was fifteenth in 1983. McRae runs a plumbing business in his home town of Lanark. He and his wife Margaret had three sons, Colin, Alister and Stuart. Both Colin and Alister were World Rally Championship drivers, with Colin winning the world championship in 1995. McRae's brother-in-law Hugh \"Shug\" Steele is also a former rally driver."
tagline: "British racing driver"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_McRae_(1993).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1943-10-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.89
  momentum:             0.5954573357888275
  historical:           9.862136
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jimmy McRae"
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    title: "جيمي ماكراي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McRae"
    title: "Jimmy McRae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McRae"
    title: "Jimmy McRae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McRae"
    title: "Jimmy McRae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McRae"
    title: "Jimmy McRae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McRae"
    title: "Jimmy McRae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McRae"
    title: "Jimmy McRae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McRae"
    title: "Jimmy McRae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジミー・マクレー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McRae"
    title: "Jimmy McRae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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