# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anousheh-ansari
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:51:23.327Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anousheh-ansari"
name: "Anousheh Ansari"
slug: "anousheh-ansari"
description: "Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems, and her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and chief executive officer of Telecom Technologies, Inc. On September 18, 2006, she became the first Iranian person to be in outer space. Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Her memoir My Dream of Stars, co-written with American engineer Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010."
tagline: "Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anousheh_Ansari_at_AI_for_Good_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           23.36366133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 212
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump