# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnaldo-tamayo-mendez
# Generated: 2026-08-16T03:31:39.999Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnaldo-tamayo-mendez"
name: "Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez"
slug: "arnaldo-tamayo-mendez"
description: "Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut. In 1980, as a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen, the first Latin American, the first person of African descent, and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into Earth orbit."
tagline: "Cuban cosmonaut"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942-01-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump