# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-zampa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:18:18.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-zampa"
name: "Al Zampa"
slug: "al-zampa"
description: "Alfred Zampa was an American iron worker who played a role in the construction of numerous San Francisco Bay Area bridges during the early twentieth century. He was most notable for being one of the first people to survive falling off the Golden Gate Bridge. He was a charter member of the Half Way to Hell Club, whose members are the men who fell from the Golden Gate Bridge and were saved by the nets."
tagline: "American bridge builder"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Alfred_Zampa_1985.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1905-03-12"
deathDate: "2000-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.03
  momentum:             8.328488372093023
  historical:           5.488266666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Zampa"
    title: "Al Zampa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Zampa"
    title: "Alfred Zampa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Zampa"
    title: "Alfred Zampa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Zampa"
    title: "Alfred Zampa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Zampa"
    title: "Alfred Zampa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Zampa"
    title: "Alfred Zampa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2835527"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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