# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-cowdrey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:43:08.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-cowdrey"
name: "Matt Cowdrey"
slug: "matt-cowdrey"
description: "Matthew John Cowdrey is an Australian politician and Paralympic swimmer. He presently holds numerous world records. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops just below the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2008 Paralympic Games, 2010 Commonwealth Games, and the 2012 Paralympic Games. After the 2012 London Games, he is the most successful Australian Paralympian, having won thirteen Paralympic gold medals and twenty three Paralympic medals in total. On 10 February 2015, Cowdrey announced his retirement from swimming."
tagline: "Australian swimmer and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/120411_-_Matthew_Cowdrey_-_3b_-_2012_Team_processing.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1988-12-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.65
  momentum:             2.941176470588236
  historical:           8.091218666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/matt_cowdrey"
    handle:    "matt_cowdrey"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cowdrey"
    title: "Matthew Cowdrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مات كاودري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مات كودرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cowdrey"
    title: "Matthew Cowdrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cowdrey"
    title: "Matt Cowdrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cowdrey"
    title: "Matt Cowdrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "ماتیو کادری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cowdrey"
    title: "Matthew Cowdrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cowdrey"
    title: "Matt Cowdrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3299692"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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