# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/burt-rutan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:10:55.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/burt-rutan"
name: "Burt Rutan"
slug: "burt-rutan"
description: "Elbert Leander \"Burt\" Rutan is an American retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, and energy-efficient air and space craft. He designed the record-breaking Voyager, which in 1986 was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. He also designed the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, which in 2006 set the world record for the fastest and longest nonstop non-refueled circumnavigation flight in history. In 2004, Rutan's sub-orbital spaceplane design SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded spacecraft to enter the realm of space, winning the Ansari X-Prize that year for achieving the feat twice within a two-week period."
tagline: "American aerospace engineer (born 1943)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.burtrutan.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump