# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicolae-rainea
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:50:42.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicolae-rainea"
name: "Nicolae Rainea"
slug: "nicolae-rainea"
description: "Nicolae Rainea, nicknamed The Locomotive of the Carpathians, was a Romanian football referee and player. Among the most highly regarded referees of his generation, he is considered one of the best international officials of the 70s and 80s and, arguably, the finest Romanian referee of all time."
tagline: "Romanian football referee (1933-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicolae_Rainea.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1933-11-19"
deathDate: "2015-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.15
  momentum:             19.43724904145156
  historical:           15.09633066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ніколае Райня"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Rainea"
    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Rainea"
    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
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    title: "Նիկոլաե Ռայնյա"
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    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
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    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Rainea"
    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Rainea"
    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
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    title: "Райня, Николае"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Rainea"
    title: "Nicolae Rainea"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254997"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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