# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donna-shirley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:49:52.875Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donna-shirley"
name: "Donna Shirley"
slug: "donna-shirley"
description: "Donna Lee Shirley is an American aerospace engineer, and former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is the author of the book Managing Martians: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman's Lifelong Quest to Get to Mars—and of the Team Behind the Space Robot That Has Captured the Imagination of the World."
tagline: "NASA employee"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donna_Shirley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.11
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.671634666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Shirley"
    title: "Donna Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "دونا شيرلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Shirley"
    title: "Donna Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Shirley"
    title: "Donna Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Shirley"
    title: "Donna Shirley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "דונה שירלי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5296462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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