# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mario-illien
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:10:49.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mario-illien"
name: "Mario Illien"
slug: "mario-illien"
description: "Mario Illien is a Swiss engineer specialising in motorsport engine design and comes from Chur in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Despite living in a country in which motor racing was banned in 1955, he developed an interest in the sport during the 1960s while following the career of Jo Bonnier, a Swedish expatriate living in Switzerland."
tagline: "Swiss motorsport engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mario_Illien.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
birthDate: "1949-08-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.96
  momentum:             0.7142857142857143
  historical:           7.0378
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Illien"
    title: "Mario Illien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ماريو الين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Illien"
    title: "Mario Illien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Illien"
    title: "Mario Illien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Illien"
    title: "Mario Illien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Illien"
    title: "Mario Illien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Illien"
    title: "Mario Illien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3"
    title: "マリオ・イリエン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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