# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-olson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:41:37.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-olson"
name: "Barbara Olson"
slug: "barbara-olson"
description: "Barbara Kay Olson was an American lawyer and conservative television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks."
tagline: "American lawyer (1955-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BarbaraOlson_(c._2001).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955-12-27"
deathDate: "2001-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.417728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1050857/"
    handle:    "nm1050857"
sources:
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    title: "Barbara Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Olson"
    title: "Barbara Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kay_Bracher"
    title: "Barbara Kay Bracher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Olson"
    title: "Barbara Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Olson"
    title: "Barbara Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Olson"
    title: "Barbara Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ברברה אולסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Olson"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Olson"
    title: "Barbara Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Олсон, Барбара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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