# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pamela-rai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:39:33.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pamela-rai"
name: "Pamela Rai"
slug: "pamela-rai"
description: "Pamela Leila Rai is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer who competed for the University of Victoria, and represented Canada at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, capturing a bronze medal and setting a new Canadian record in the 4 × 100-metre medley relay. She became not only the first Canadian Olympic medalist of Indian descent, but the first woman of Indian ancestry to win an Olympic medal. A former Canadian record holder in several events, Rai successfully represented Canada through 1986 at international meets including the Pan American and Commonwealth games. After her time as a swimming competitor, she served as a swim coach, and high school English, Social Justice, Special Ed. and Math teacher in Nanaimo, BC, Canada."
tagline: "Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pamela_Leila_Rai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1966-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.604068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "帕梅拉·拉伊"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Rai"
    title: "Pamela Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Rai"
    title: "Pamela Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Rai"
    title: "Pamela Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Rai"
    title: "Pamela Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C"
    title: "پاملا رای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Rai"
    title: "Pamela Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Rai"
    title: "Pamela Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Rai"
    title: "Pamela Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Rai"
    title: "Pamela Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Памела Рай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3892892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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