# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frances-northcutt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:03:59.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frances-northcutt"
name: "Frances Northcutt"
slug: "frances-northcutt"
description: "Frances \"Poppy\" Northcutt is an American engineer and attorney who began her career as a computer operator and was later a member of the technical staff of NASA's Apollo program during the Space Race. During the Apollo 8 mission she became the first female engineer to work in NASA's Mission Control."
tagline: "NASA Trajectory Engineer Houston"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Poppy_Northcutt_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-08-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.68
  momentum:             12.27692307692308
  historical:           10.51674266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A1_%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%AA'%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%98"
    title: "פראנסס נורת'קאט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Northcutt"
    title: "Frances Northcutt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19276814"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump