# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/forrest-bird
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:07:20.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/forrest-bird"
name: "Forrest Bird"
slug: "forrest-bird"
description: "Forrest Morton Bird was an American aviator, inventor, and biomedical engineer. He is best known for having created some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators for acute and chronic cardiopulmonary care."
tagline: "American engineer (1921–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Forrest-bird-card.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-06-09"
deathDate: "2015-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.1
  momentum:             10.93833067517278
  historical:           8.091362666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Forrest Bird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "فورست بيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "فورست بيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_M._Bird"
    title: "Forrest M. Bird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Bird"
    title: "Forrest Bird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Bird"
    title: "Forrest Bird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "فارست برد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Bird"
    title: "Forrest Bird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Bird"
    title: "Forrest Bird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1437958"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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