# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ratko-rudic
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:03:35.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ratko-rudic"
name: "Ratko Rudić"
slug: "ratko-rudic"
description: "Ratko Rudić is a retired Croatian water polo coach and a former water polo player. As of 2015, he has won 38 medals as a coach at major events, making him the most successful water polo coach in history, and second most successful team sport coach of all time. He won four gold medals, of which three were consecutive, with three different national teams at the Summer Olympics, as well as three gold medals with three national teams at the World Championships, among many others. In 2007 was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, described as \"one of the best, if not the best, water polo coach to walk the deck of the pool\"."
tagline: "Croatian water polo player and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ratko_Rudi%C4%87_kolovoz_2012_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1948-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.929133858267716
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "拉特科·鲁迪奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ratko Rudić"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Rudi%C4%87"
    title: "Ratko Rudić"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Rudi%C4%87"
    title: "Ratko Rudić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ratko Rudić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Rudi%C4%87"
    title: "Ratko Rudić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Rudi%C4%87"
    title: "Ratko Rudić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Rudi%C4%87"
    title: "Ratko Rudić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%ED%8A%B8%EC%BD%94_%EB%A3%A8%EB%94%94%EC%B9%98"
    title: "라트코 루디치"
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    title: "Ратко Рудиќ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ratko Rudić"
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    title: "Ратко Рудич"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump