# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-barnard
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:09:20.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-barnard"
name: "John Barnard"
slug: "john-barnard"
description: "John Edward Barnard, is an English engineer and racing car designer. Barnard is credited with the introduction of two new designs into Formula One: the carbon fibre composite chassis first seen in 1981 with McLaren, and the semi-automatic gearbox with shift paddles on the steering wheel, which he introduced with Ferrari in 1989."
tagline: "British motorsport designer (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Barnard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.84874933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Barnard"
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    title: "John Barnard"
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    title: "John Barnard"
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    title: "John Barnard"
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    title: "John Barnard"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump