# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/len-waters
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:52:34.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/len-waters"
name: "Len Waters"
slug: "len-waters"
description: "Leonard Victor \"Len\" Waters was the first Aboriginal Australian military aviator, and the only one to serve as a fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. Aboriginal people at the time suffered significant discrimination and disadvantages in Australian society, such as restrictions on movement, residence, employment, and access to services and citizenship. Born in northern New South Wales and raised in Queensland, Waters was working as a shearer when he joined the RAAF in 1942. Training initially as a mechanic, he volunteered for flying duties and graduated as a sergeant pilot in 1944. He flew P-40 Kittyhawks in the South West Pacific theatre, where he completed ninety-five missions, mainly close air support. By the end of the war he had risen to the rank of warrant officer. Following his discharge from the RAAF in 1946, he attempted to start a regional airline but was unable to secure financial backing and government approval. He went back to shearing, and died in 1993 aged sixty-nine."
tagline: "Australian fighter pilot (1924-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LenWaters.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1924-06-20"
deathDate: "1993-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.832004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "لين واترس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "لين واترس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Waters"
    title: "Leonard Waters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Waters"
    title: "Len Waters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Waters"
    title: "Len Waters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1817232"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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