# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-gary-powers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:14.630Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-gary-powers"
name: "Francis Gary Powers"
slug: "francis-gary-powers"
description: "Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union. Powers survived, but was captured and sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison for espionage. He served 21 months of his sentence before being released in a prisoner swap in 1962."
tagline: "American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union (1929-1977)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1929-08-17"
deathDate: "1977-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump