# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirk-frimout
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:23:45.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dirk-frimout"
name: "Dirk Frimout"
slug: "dirk-frimout"
description: "Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout is a Belgian astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-45 as a payload specialist, making him the first Belgian in space."
tagline: "Belgian astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frimout.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.41138133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump