# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betty-grissom
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:48:46.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betty-grissom"
name: "Betty Grissom"
slug: "betty-grissom"
description: "Betty Lavonne Grissom was the wife of American astronaut Gus Grissom, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts."
tagline: "Wife of astronaut Gus Grissom (1927-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Betty_Grissom_in_1961.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1927-08-08"
deathDate: "2018-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.617681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Grissom"
    title: "Betty Grissom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57661691"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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