# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-conover
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:06:03.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-conover"
name: "David Conover"
slug: "david-conover"
description: "David Conover was an author and documentary photographer who is credited with discovering Marilyn Monroe while taking photos for Yank magazine. While attached to the U.S. Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, his commanding officer was future U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who had sent Conover to the Radioplane Munitions Factory, where he discovered Monroe."
tagline: "American journalist (1919–1983)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Norma-Jean.jpg/330px-Norma-Jean.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1919-06-26"
deathDate: "1983-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.29877866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "ديفيد كونفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Conover"
    title: "David Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Conover"
    title: "David Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Conover"
    title: "David Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Conover"
    title: "David Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "دیوید کانوور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Conover"
    title: "David Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Conover"
    title: "David Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Conover"
    title: "David Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Conover"
    title: "David Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Девід Коновер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3703147"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump