# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dava-newman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:23:00.992Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dava-newman"
name: "Dava Newman"
slug: "dava-newman"
description: "Dava Jean Newman is an American aerospace engineer. She is the former director of the MIT Media Lab and a former deputy administrator of NASA. Newman is the Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been a faculty member in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and MIT's School of Engineering since 1993."
tagline: "Media Lab director and former Deputy Administrator of NASA"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dava_Newman%2C_official_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4884318766066838
  historical:           11.629376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://davanewman.com"
sources:
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    title: "دافا نيومان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dava Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dava_Newman"
    title: "Dava Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dava_Newman"
    title: "Dava Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "داوا نیومن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dava Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dava Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dava Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dava Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dava Newman"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dava_Newman"
    title: "Dava Newman"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dava_Newman"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump