# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lester-piggott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:11:36.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lester-piggott"
name: "Lester Piggott"
slug: "lester-piggott"
description: "Lester Keith Piggott was an English professional jockey and horse trainer. With 4,493 career flat racing wins in Britain, including a record nine Epsom Derby victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest flat racing jockeys of all time and the originator of a much-imitated style. Popularly called \"The Long Fellow\", he was known for his competitive personality, restricting his weight and, on occasion, not sparing the whip, such as in the 1972 Derby. Piggott was convicted of tax fraud in 1987 and sentenced to three years in prison, but served just over a year."
tagline: "British champion jockey (1935–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%98vrevold._Lester_Piggot_-_L0060_922Fo30141701170209.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-11-05"
deathDate: "2022-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.102205564364999
  historical:           11.26053733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3106292/"
    handle:    "nm3106292"
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    title: "柏葛"
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    title: "Lester Piggott"
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    title: "Lester Piggott"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Piggott"
    title: "Lester Piggott"
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    title: "Lester Piggott"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%82%B4%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
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    title: "Lester Piggott"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump