# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/essam-heggy
# Generated: 2026-08-20T22:53:24.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/essam-heggy"
name: "Essam Heggy"
slug: "essam-heggy"
description: "Essam Heggy is an American and French space scientist of Egyptian descent."
tagline: "Egyptian planetary scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EssamHeggy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.11
  momentum:             25
  historical:           3.272154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12227262"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essam_Heggy"
    title: "Essam Heggy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AD%D8%AC%D9%8A"
    title: "عصام حجي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AD%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "عصام حجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views