Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton interests me less as a statistic than as a study in refusing to settle. Seven world titles, more wins and poles than anyone, a knighthood — most drivers would coast on that. Instead he uprooted himself to Ferrari at an age when legacies usually calcify, gambling comfort for one more story. I respect equally what he does outside the cockpit, speaking bluntly about diversity in a sport that long pretended the issue did not exist. You can debate his methods, but not his consistency of purpose. The boy from Stevenage built the rarest kind of greatness — the kind that keeps risking itself.

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Name (English)

Lewis Hamilton

Name (Japanese)

ルイス・ハミルトン

Reading

るいす・はみるとん

Born

January 7, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Stevenage, United Kingdom

Height

174 cm

Occupation

Formula One driver / racing automobile driver

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

Awards & achievements

• Member of the Order of the British Empire
• 2008 Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year
• 2020 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
• 2020 Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year
• 2020 L'Équipe Champion of Champions
• 2007 Segrave Trophy

• Official sitehttps://www.lewishamilton.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lewishamilton/
• Xhttps://x.com/LewisHamilton
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Hamilton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9673

Tags

• Formula One driver
• racing automobile driver

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.