# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heather-heyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:58:23.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heather-heyer"
name: "Heather Heyer"
slug: "heather-heyer"
description: "The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35. Fields, 20, had previously espoused neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs, and drove from Ohio to attend the rally."
tagline: "American paralegal, activist and murder victim"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/2017_Charlottesville_ramming_%28car_involved%29.jpg/330px-2017_Charlottesville_ramming_%28car_involved%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1985"
deathDate: "2017-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.39
  momentum:             1.60857908847185
  historical:           5.313430666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-heyer-3b902b5a/"
    handle:    "heather-heyer-3b902b5a"
sources:
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    title: "Heather Heyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Heyer"
    title: "Heather Heyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Heyer"
    title: "Heather Heyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heather_Heyer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Heyer"
    title: "Heather Heyer"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heather_Heyer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36338039"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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