# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/renee-richards
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:38:58.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/renee-richards"
name: "Renée Richards"
slug: "renee-richards"
description: "Renée Richards is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who competed on the professional circuit in the 1970s, and became widely known following male-to-female medical affirmation, when she fought to compete as a woman in the 1976 US Open."
tagline: "US tennis player and ophthalmologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Renee_Richards%2C_1976.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Tennis Players"
  slug: "tennis-players"
profileType:
  name: "Tennis Player"
  slug: "tennis-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314"
birthDate: "1934-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.53
  momentum:             7.710330445703951
  historical:           17.97595866666667
  currentAttention:     4.725554343874956
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724294/"
    handle:    "nm0724294"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%81"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "رينيه ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رينيه ريتشاردز (اكاديميه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رنه ریچاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A6'%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%A1"
    title: "רנה ריצ'רדס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9F%AC%EB%84%A4%EC%9D%B4_%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EC%A6%88"
    title: "러네이 리처즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ричардс, Рене"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рене Ричардс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%81"
    title: "Рене Річардс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455868"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1404154"
    title: "Renée Richards"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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