# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-whitman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:37:51.298Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-whitman"
name: "Charles Whitman"
slug: "charles-whitman"
description: "Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer who committed the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, one of the first mass shootings in modern American history to receive widespread national media coverage.\nA former Marine and architectural engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin, Whitman killed 17 people and wounded 31 others on August 1, 1966, in a series of attacks that began the night before when he stabbed his mother and wife to death in their respective homes.\nArmed with multiple rifles and other weapons, he fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower.\nThere, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by the Austin Police Department."
tagline: "American mass murderer and spree killer; perpetrator of the University of Texas Tower shooting (1941–1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Whitman_(1963).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-06-24"
deathDate: "1966-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.98030133333334
  currentAttention:     9.08
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1345149"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump