# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-hansen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:53:50.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-hansen"
name: "Rick Hansen"
slug: "rick-hansen"
description: "Richard Marvin Hansen is a Canadian track and field athlete, activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. When Rick was 15, he was riding in the back of a pickup truck after a fishing trip with his friend, when the driver lost control and the vehicle rolled over. Hansen was trapped on the inside of the roll and thrown to the ground, along with the equipment from the truck. As a result of the crash, Hansen broke his back, sustained a spinal cord injury and became paralyzed from the waist down."
tagline: "Canadian wheelchair racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Canadian_Paralympian_Rick_Hansen_(August_2008)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1957-08-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.58
  momentum:             1.599203715992037
  historical:           10.45545066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1750842/"
    handle:    "nm1750842"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rickhansen.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Рік Гансен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ريك هانسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ريك هانسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q978803"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4802635"
    title: "Rick Hansen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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