# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-elachi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:46.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-elachi"
name: "Charles Elachi"
slug: "charles-elachi"
description: "Charles Elachi is a Lebanese-American professor (emeritus) of electrical engineering and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2001 to 2016 he was the 8th director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech."
tagline: "Lebanese electrical engineer, JPL director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CharlesElachi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.09269466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles Elachi"
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    title: "Չարլզ Էլաչի"
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    title: "Charles Elachi"
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    title: "Charles Elachi"
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    title: "Charles Elachi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump