# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-stapp
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:37:03.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-stapp"
name: "John Stapp"
slug: "john-stapp"
description: "John Paul Stapp was an American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician, biophysicist, and pioneer in studying the effects of acceleration forces on humans. He was a colleague and contemporary of Chuck Yeager, and became known as \"the fastest man on earth\". His work on Project Manhigh pioneered many developments for the US space program."
tagline: "American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician, and biophysicist (1910–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Stapp.triddle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-07-11"
deathDate: "1999-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.14
  momentum:             7.311522048364154
  historical:           11.59620533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stapp"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "جون ستاب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "جون ستاب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Stapp"
    title: "John Paul Stapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp"
    title: "John Stapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp"
    title: "John Stapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%BE"
    title: "جان استپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Stapp"
    title: "John Paul Stapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Stapp"
    title: "John Paul Stapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%90%D7%A4"
    title: "ג'ון סטאפ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%83%97"
    title: "ジョン・スタップ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Stapp"
    title: "John Paul Stapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp"
    title: "John Stapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711954"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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