# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anil-menon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:57:42.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anil-menon"
name: "Anil Menon"
slug: "anil-menon"
description: "Anil Madhavan Samoilenko Menon is a colonel in the United States Space Force, emergency medicine physician and NASA astronaut. He was a flight surgeon at NASA and the medical director at SpaceX before being selected as a candidate for an astronaut at NASA."
tagline: "Physician and NASA astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anil_Menon_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1976-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.32
  momentum:             10
  historical:           11.808332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 95
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/astro_anil/"
    handle:    "astro_anil"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon"
    title: "Anil Menon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon"
    title: "Anil Menon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon"
    title: "Anil Menon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon"
    title: "Anil Menon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon"
    title: "Anil Menon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "アニル・メノン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anils_Menons"
    title: "Anils Menons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon"
    title: "Anil Menon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon"
    title: "Anil Menon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Менон Самойленко, Анил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Аніл Самойленко-Менон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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