# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:19:28.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-richards"
name: "Mark Richards"
slug: "mark-richards"
description: "Mark Richards, known as MR, is an Australian surfer and surfboard shaper from Newcastle, New South Wales. He won four consecutive world surfing championships from 1979 to 1982. Richards developed the \"Free Ride\" twin-fin surfboard in the late 1970s, a design that later became highly influential in the evolution of modern high-performance surfing."
tagline: "Australian surfer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Mark_Richards_Free_Ride_twin-fin_surfboard_at_Newcastle_Museum.jpg/330px-Mark_Richards_Free_Ride_twin-fin_surfboard_at_Newcastle_Museum.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1957-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.16
  momentum:             0.9424083769633509
  historical:           6.563429333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Richards"
    title: "Mark Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%85%D8%AC)"
    title: "مارك ريتشاردز (متركمج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Richards_(surfer)"
    title: "Mark Richards (surfer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Richards"
    title: "Mark Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Richards"
    title: "Mark Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Richards"
    title: "Mark Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Richards_(surfista)"
    title: "Mark Richards (surfista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1470097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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