# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-sharman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:42:41.644Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-sharman"
name: "Helen Sharman"
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description: "Helen Patricia Sharman is a British chemist and cosmonaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991."
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birthDate: "1963-05-30"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump