# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-turcotte
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:22:46.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-turcotte"
name: "Ron Turcotte"
slug: "ron-turcotte"
description: "Ronald Joseph Morel Turcotte was a Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973."
tagline: "Canadian thoroughbred jockey (1941–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Turcotte_at_Saratoga_Race_Course_in_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-07-22"
deathDate: "2025-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.35
  momentum:             30
  historical:           6.696033333333334
  currentAttention:     6.440000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  235
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1535609/"
    handle:    "nm1535609"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A2%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Рон Тюркотт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Turcotte"
    title: "Ron Turcotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Turcotte"
    title: "Ron Turcotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Turcotte"
    title: "Ron Turcotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "ロン・ターコット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Turcotte"
    title: "Ron Turcotte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2396962"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2582717"
    title: "Ron Turcotte"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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