# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-gardner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:10:46.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-gardner"
name: "Wayne Gardner"
slug: "wayne-gardner"
description: "Wayne Michael Gardner is an Australian former professional motorcycle and touring car racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1986 to 1992, most prominently as a member of the Honda factory racing team where he became the first Australian to win motorcycling's premier class in 1987. His success on the world motorcycle road racing circuit earned him the nickname The Wollongong Whiz."
tagline: "Australian motorcycle racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wayne_Gardner_1992_Japanese_GP.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1959-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.99
  momentum:             8.713692946058092
  historical:           13.89320933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/thewaynegardner"
    handle:    "thewaynegardner"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/therealwaynegardner/"
    handle:    "therealwaynegardner"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/WayneMGardner"
    handle:    "WayneMGardner"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "واين غاردنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ワイン・ガードナー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gardner"
    title: "Wayne Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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