# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-eugene-aldrin-sr
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:25:26.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-eugene-aldrin-sr"
name: "Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr."
slug: "edwin-eugene-aldrin-sr"
description: "Edwin Eugene \"Gene\" Aldrin Sr. was an aviator and officer in the United States Army during World War I and World War II. He was assistant commandant of the Army's first test pilot school at McCook Field, Ohio, from 1919 to 1922, and founded the engineering school there that later became the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright-Patterson AFB. The Edwin E. Aldrin Sr. Award is presented to an AFIT graduate for leadership and accomplishing AFIT's educational objectives in an outstanding manner. He was the father of astronaut Buzz Aldrin."
tagline: "United States Army officer and aviator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edwin_Eugene_Aldrin%2C_Sr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1896-04-12"
deathDate: "1974-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.98
  momentum:             9.250000000000002
  historical:           2.419692
  currentAttention:     51.38888888888889
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Eugene_Aldrin_Sr."
    title: "Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Eugene_Aldrin_Sr."
    title: "Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58176045"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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