# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yiannis-kouros
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:50:13.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yiannis-kouros"
name: "Yiannis Kouros"
slug: "yiannis-kouros"
description: "Yiannis Kouros is a Greek ultramarathon runner based in Greece. Kouros holds or formerly held many world records between 100 miles and 1,000 miles. In 1991, he starred as Pheidippides in the movie The Story of the Marathon: A Hero's Journey, which chronicles the history of marathon running."
tagline: "Greek ultramarathon runner (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yiannis_Kouros_2008_Keszthely_Hungary_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.41
  momentum:             1.605504587155963
  historical:           18.928196
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "يايانيس كوروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iannis_Kouros"
    title: "Iannis Kouros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Kouros"
    title: "Janis Kouros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Kouros"
    title: "Yiannis Kouros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Γιάννης Κούρος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yiannis Kouros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yiánnis Koúros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Kouros"
    title: "Yiannis Kouros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janis Kuros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Kouros"
    title: "Yiannis Kouros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Курос, Янис"
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    title: "Яніс Курос"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yiannis Kouros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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