# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:01.513Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-schmidt"
name: "Sam Schmidt"
slug: "sam-schmidt"
description: "Samuel Schmidt is a former Indy Racing League driver and NTT IndyCar Series and Indy Lights series team owner. Schmidt's brief IndyCar career included a win in 1999, but an accident before the 2000 season left him a quadriplegic. Schmidt was a co-owner of the Arrow McLaren IndyCar team. Schmidt also founded Conquer Paralysis Now, a charitable organization founded in 2000 with the aim of finding a cure for paralysis."
tagline: "American racing driver"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_schmidt_(40652596860).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1964-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.57
  momentum:             0.9199434281779781
  historical:           7.455944000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schmidt"
    title: "Sam Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "سام شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "سام شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schmidt"
    title: "Sam Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schmidt"
    title: "Sam Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schmidt"
    title: "Sam Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schmidt"
    title: "Sam Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Schmidt"
    title: "Sam Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1334335"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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