# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustave-whitehead
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:33:04.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustave-whitehead"
name: "Gustave Whitehead"
slug: "gustave-whitehead"
description: "Gustave Albin Whitehead was a German–American aviation pioneer. Between 1897 and 1915, he designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines. Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in 1901 and 1902, predating the first flights by the Wright brothers in 1903."
tagline: "Possible first powered manned flight (1874–1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gustave_Witehead_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-01-01"
deathDate: "1927-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump