# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-oaksey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:47:37.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-oaksey"
name: "John Oaksey"
slug: "john-oaksey"
description: "John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin and 2nd Baron Oaksey, was a British aristocrat, amateur jockey and horse racing journalist and TV presenter. He was twice British Champion Amateur Jump Jockey, before becoming a journalist and racing personality both on television and through his charitable work for the Injured Jockeys Fund, which he helped establish. Oaksey was described as \"quite possibly the outstanding racing figure of modern times, touching so many via his compelling writing, broadcasting, race-riding and tireless fund-raising\"."
tagline: "British peer, amateur jockey and racing journalist (1929-2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1929-03-21"
deathDate: "2012-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.27
  momentum:             0.1809408926417371
  historical:           3.763717333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643060/"
    handle:    "nm0643060"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "جون اواكسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lawrence%2C_2._Baron_Oaksey"
    title: "John Lawrence, 2. Baron Oaksey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oaksey"
    title: "John Oaksey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3610488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2253109"
    title: "John Oaksey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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