# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-w-plummer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:05:25.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-w-plummer"
name: "James W. Plummer"
slug: "james-w-plummer"
description: "James W. Plummer was an engineer and explorer who served as the fifth Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He previously served as the Lockheed Corporation program manager and overall systems engineer for the CORONA and LANYARD imaging systems, focusing on development of the second generation of U.S. satellites."
tagline: "American aerospace engineer (1920–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_W._Plummer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1920-01-29"
deathDate: "2013-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.61
  momentum:             5.453283996299723
  historical:           5.671454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "James W. Plummer"
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    title: "جيمس دبليو. بلامر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس دبليو. بلامر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Plummer"
    title: "James Plummer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Plummer"
    title: "James W. Plummer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%A8"
    title: "ג'יימס פלמר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6144879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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