# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-r-thompson-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:22:10.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-r-thompson-jr"
name: "James R. Thompson, Jr."
slug: "james-r-thompson-jr"
description: "James Robert Thompson Jr., known as J.R. Thompson, was the fifth director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. He served as director from September 29, 1986, to July 6, 1989. Thompson also served as NASA's deputy director from July 6, 1989, to November 8, 1991."
tagline: "Deputy Administrator of NASA (1936–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JamesRThompson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1936-03-06"
deathDate: "2017-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4032258064516129
  historical:           4.804644
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جيمس روبرت طومسون الابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز آر تامپسون، جونیور"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Thompson_Jr."
    title: "James R. Thompson Jr."
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    title: "James R. Thompson jr."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump