# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-backus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:09:03.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-backus"
name: "Ronald Backus"
slug: "ronald-backus"
description: "Ronald Backus was a British competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a bronze medal in the Dragon class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Graham Mann and Jonathan Janson. He was born in Poole, Wiltshire, England."
tagline: "Sailor (1922–1999)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1922-03-28"
deathDate: "1999-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.45
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.602232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BD%97%E7%BA%B3%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF"
    title: "罗纳德·巴克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Backus"
    title: "Ronald Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Backus"
    title: "Ronald Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Backus"
    title: "Ronald Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A8%DA%A9"
    title: "رونالد بک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Backus"
    title: "Ronald Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Backus"
    title: "Ronald Backus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Роналд Бекас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3441488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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