# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-southgate
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:14.202Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-southgate"
name: "Tony Southgate"
slug: "tony-southgate"
description: "Tony Southgate is an English engineer and former racing car designer. He designed many successful cars, including Jaguar's Le Mans-winning XJR-9, and cars for almost every type of circuit racing. He was responsible for the chassis design of Ford's RS200 Group B rally car. Southgate was employed as chief designer or technical director for many Formula One teams for over twenty years. These teams included BRM, Shadow and Arrows. Southgate retired after producing the Audi R8C, which was a major influence in the Bentley Speed 8, which won Le Mans in 2003. He continues to be a regular visitor to current and historic race meetings."
tagline: "British engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tony_Southgate_Race_Retro_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.88
  momentum:             0.3464203233256351
  historical:           6.365589333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Tony Southgate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تونى ساوثجيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Southgate"
    title: "Tony Southgate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Southgate"
    title: "Tony Southgate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Southgate"
    title: "Tony Southgate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "トニー・サウスゲート"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Southgate"
    title: "Tony Southgate"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump