# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/loretta-hidalgo-whitesides
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:51:58.881Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/loretta-hidalgo-whitesides"
name: "Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides"
slug: "loretta-hidalgo-whitesides"
description: "Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides is an American public speaker, co-creator of Yuri's Night, and an author on space exploration. She accumulated over five hours of weightless time as a Flight Director for Zero-G Corporation, and plans to travel to space as a \"Founder Astronaut\" on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. She is married to George T. Whitesides, Congressman from California who was elected in 2024."
tagline: "American public speaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Headshot_2019_DesertPreserve_warm.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           38.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.41278
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorettawhitesides/"
    handle:    "lorettawhitesides"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1778464/"
    handle:    "nm1778464"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Hidalgo_Whitesides"
    title: "Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Hidalgo_Whitesides"
    title: "Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27916129"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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