# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keith-henson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:19:11.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keith-henson"
name: "Keith Henson"
slug: "keith-henson"
description: "Howard Keith Henson is an American electrical engineer and writer. Henson writes on subjects including space engineering, space law, memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology, and the physical limitations of Transhumanism. In 1975, Henson founded the L5 Society with his then-wife Carolyn Meinel to promote space colonization. In 1987 the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to form the National Space Society."
tagline: "American engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Keith_Henson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.86
  momentum:             18.87523629489603
  historical:           5.493090666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Keith Henson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%AA_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "کیت هانسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson"
    title: "Keith Henson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%AF%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%B1%89%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "凯斯·汉森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson"
    title: "Keith Henson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Хенсон, Говард Кит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3194740"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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