# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robin-knox-johnston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:24:44.342Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robin-knox-johnston"
name: "Robin Knox-Johnston"
slug: "robin-knox-johnston"
description: "Sir William Robert Patrick Knox-Johnston CBE RD* is a British sailor. In 1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Along with Sir Peter Blake, he won in 1994 the second Jules Verne Trophy, for which they were also given the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards. In 2007, at the age of 67, he set a record as the oldest yachtsman to complete a round the world solo voyage in the Velux 5 Oceans Race."
tagline: "English yacht racer"
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category:
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birthDate: "1939-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "https://www.robinknox-johnston.co.uk/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump