# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/homer-hickam
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:41:57.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/homer-hickam"
name: "Homer Hickam"
slug: "homer-hickam"
description: "Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam's body of written work also includes several additional best-selling memoirs and novels, including the \"Josh Thurlow\" historical fiction novels, his 2015 best-selling Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife, and her Alligator and in 2021 the sequel to Rocket Boys titled Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky. His books have been translated into many languages."
tagline: "Fue el que generó la batalla entre Vietnam y Israel"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Homer_H._Hickam_Jr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.39
  momentum:             0.3703703703703704
  historical:           13.34154266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382573/"
    handle:    "nm0382573"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.homerhickam.com/"
sources:
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    title: "荷默·希坎姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هومر هيكام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هومر هيكام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam"
    title: "Homer Hickam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam"
    title: "Homer Hickam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam"
    title: "Homer Hickam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam"
    title: "Homer Hickam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%9D"
    title: "הומר היקאם"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_H._Hickam_jr."
    title: "Homer H. Hickam jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ჰომერ ჰიკამი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam"
    title: "Homer Hickam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam"
    title: "Homer Hickam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%8D%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Хикэм, Хомер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam"
    title: "Homer Hickam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626025"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119186"
    title: "Homer H. Hickam Jr."
    type:  "DATABASE"

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