# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lou-banach
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:53:22.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lou-banach"
name: "Lou Banach"
slug: "lou-banach"
description: "Ludwig David \"Lou\" Banach is an American athlete who won a gold medal in wrestling in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was noted with his fraternal twin brother Ed Banach for both winning gold medals in freestyle wrestling at the same Olympics."
tagline: "American Olympic wrestler, twin brother of Ed Banach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lou_Banach.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1960-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.34787733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Banach"
    title: "Ludwig Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "لو بنک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A3%A8_%EB%B0%B0%EB%82%B5"
    title: "루 배낵"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Banach"
    title: "Lou Banach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%85%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83"
    title: "Банах, Лу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952041"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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