# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-whitehead
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:58:12.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-whitehead"
name: "Peter Whitehead"
slug: "peter-whitehead"
description: "Peter Nield Whitehead was a British racing driver. He was born in Menston, Yorkshire and was killed in an accident at Lasalle, France, during the Tour de France endurance race. A cultured, knowledgeable and well-travelled racer, he was excellent in sports cars. He won the 1938 Australian Grand Prix, which along with a 24 Heures du Mans win in 1951, probably was his finest achievement, but he also won two 12 Heures internationales de Reims events. He was a regular entrant, mostly for Peter Walker and Graham Whitehead, his half-brother. His death in 1958 ended a career that started in 1935 – however, he was lucky to survive an air crash in 1948."
tagline: "English racing driver (1914-1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Whitehead%2C_winner_Grand_Prix_Czechoslovakia_(Brno_1949).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1914-11-12"
deathDate: "1958-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.34
  momentum:             7.166213577363402
  historical:           17.09093066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Peter Whitehead"
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    title: "Peter Whitehead"
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    title: "Peter Whitehead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Whitehead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Whitehead"
    title: "Peter Whitehead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Whitehead_(pilota_automobilistico)"
    title: "Peter Whitehead (pilota automobilistico)"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Whitehead_(coureur)"
    title: "Peter Whitehead (coureur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Whitehead (kierowca wyścigowy)"
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    title: "Peter Whitehead"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173049"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump