# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dafydd-williams
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:33:45.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dafydd-williams"
name: "Dafydd Williams"
slug: "dafydd-williams"
description: "Dafydd \"David\" Rhys Williams is a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight, STS-118 in August 2007, was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. During that mission he performed three spacewalks, becoming the third Canadian to perform a spacewalk and setting a Canadian record for total number of spacewalks. These spacewalks combined for a total duration of 17 hours and 47 minutes."
tagline: "Canadian astronaut and physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dafydd_Williams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-05-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.29755466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump