# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-irvin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:49:27.855Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-irvin"
name: "Leslie Irvin"
slug: "leslie-irvin"
description: "Leslie Leroy Irvin was a stunt-man for the fledgling Californian film industry. Flying in balloons, he performed using trapeze acrobatics and parachute descents. For the 1914 film Sky High, Irvin made his first jump out of an airplane while flying at 1,000 feet above the ground. In 1918, he developed his own life-saving static line parachute, jumping with it several times and promoting it to the US Army. Irvin joined the Army Air Service's parachute research team at McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio where he made the first premeditated free-fall jump with the modern parachute on April 28, 1919."
tagline: "American parachutist (1895-1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leslie_Irvin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1895-09-10"
deathDate: "1966-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.41
  momentum:             7.021276595744682
  historical:           6.340137333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Irvin"
    title: "Leslie Irvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليسلى ايرڤين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Irvin"
    title: "Leslie Irvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_L._Irvin"
    title: "Leslie L. Irvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Irvin"
    title: "Leslie Irvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "लेस्ली अर्विन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8_(%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%8E%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Ирвин, Лесли (парашютист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940373"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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