# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-lacoste
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:03:35.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-lacoste"
name: "René Lacoste"
slug: "rene-lacoste"
description: "Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed \"the Crocodile\" because of how he dealt with his opponents; he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929, and eventually founded the brand and its logo in 1933."
tagline: "French tennis player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ren%C3%A9_Lacoste.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Tennis Players"
  slug: "tennis-players"
profileType:
  name: "Tennis Player"
  slug: "tennis-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314"
birthDate: "1904-07-02"
deathDate: "1996-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.83241973375098
  historical:           23.93847066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 123
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    title: "Renatus Lacoste"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump