# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-clarke
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:24.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-clarke"
name: "Ron Clarke"
slug: "ron-clarke"
description: "Ronald William Clarke was an Australian athlete, writer, and the Mayor of the Gold Coast from 2004 to 2012. He was one of the best-known middle- and long-distance runners in the 1960s, notable for setting seventeen world records."
tagline: "Australian long-distance runner (1937-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Clarke_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1937-02-21"
deathDate: "2015-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.82
  momentum:             10.23032736784684
  historical:           21.482728
  currentAttention:     52.8169014084507
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164978/"
    handle:    "nm0164978"
sources:
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
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    title: "ロン・クラーク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Clarke"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549365"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3211099"
    title: "Ron Clarke"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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