# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-fontes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:09.396Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-fontes"
name: "Luis Fontés"
slug: "luis-fontes"
description: "Luis Goncelvis Fontés was a British racing driver of Brazilian parentage who, along with John Stuart Hindmarsh, won the 1935 24 Hours of Le Mans for the Lagonda automobile company and won the inaugural Limerick Grand Prix in 1935 in an Alfa Romeo. He also held a pilot's licence after learning to fly at Reading Aerodrome, Berkshire, UK, and entered his own Miles Hawk Speed Six racing aeroplane in the prestigious King's Cup Air Race in 1935."
tagline: "British racing driver (1912-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Luis_Font%C3%A9s_at_the_at_the_1935_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1912-12-26"
deathDate: "1940-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.54
  momentum:             17.98913043478261
  historical:           6.541937333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Font%C3%A9s"
    title: "Luis Fontés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "لويس فونتيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Font%C3%A9s"
    title: "Luis Fontés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Font%C3%A9s"
    title: "Luis Fontés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Font%C3%A9s"
    title: "Luis Fontés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Font%C3%A9s"
    title: "Luis Fontés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Font%C3%A8s"
    title: "Luis Fontès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q454132"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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