# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leeroy-yarbrough
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:53:24.154Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leeroy-yarbrough"
name: "LeeRoy Yarbrough"
slug: "leeroy-yarbrough"
description: "Lonnie \"LeeRoy\" Yarbrough was an American stock car racer. His best season was 1969 when he won seven races, had 21 finishes in the top-ten and earned $193,211. During his entire career from 1960–1972, he competed in 198 races, scoring fourteen wins, 65 finishes in the top-five, 92 finishes in the top-ten, and ten pole positions. Yarbrough also competed in open-wheel racing, making five starts in the USAC Championship cars, including three Indianapolis 500s, with a best finish of third at Trenton Speedway in 1970. His racing number was 98. When asked about his passion, Yarbrough described racing as \"what I call my life.\""
tagline: "NASCAR driver (1938-1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/LeeRoyYarbroughNASCAR1969.jpg/330px-LeeRoyYarbroughNASCAR1969.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1938-09-17"
deathDate: "1984-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.507886666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeeRoy_Yarbrough"
    title: "LeeRoy Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ليروى ياربرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeeRoy_Yarbrough"
    title: "LeeRoy Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeeRoy_Yarbrough"
    title: "LeeRoy Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeeRoy_Yarbrough"
    title: "LeeRoy Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeeRoy_Yarbrough"
    title: "LeeRoy Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2271392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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