# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/unknown-french-boy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:04:43.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/unknown-french-boy"
name: "unknown French boy"
slug: "unknown-french-boy"
description: "An \"unknown French boy\" is recorded to have participated as the replacement coxswain for the gold-winning mixed team in the men's coxed pair rowing competition at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Believed to possibly be the youngest Olympic medalist in history, the identity of the boy remains unknown and has been the subject of investigation for many years. Despite being referred to as the \"unknown French boy\" in Olympic archives, his nationality is not known with certainty."
tagline: "Participant in the 1900 Summer Olympics men's coxed pair rowing"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran%C3%A7ois_Brandt%2C_Roelof_Klein_and_unknown_French_Boy_(1900_Summer_Olympics)_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1893"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           55.02
  momentum:             25
  historical:           6.30804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134739434"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_French_boy"
    title: "unknown French boy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C3%B1o_franc%C3%A9s_desconocido_(Juegos_Ol%C3%ADmpicos_de_Par%C3%ADs_1900)"
    title: "Niño francés desconocido (Juegos Olímpicos de París 1900)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%96%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AB_%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%BF_%D5%BF%D5%B2%D5%A1"
    title: "Ֆրանսիացի անհայտ տղա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A3%E4%BD%93%E4%B8%8D%E6%98%8E%E3%81%AE%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E4%BA%BA%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4"
    title: "正体不明のフランス人少年"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Неизвестный французский мальчик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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