# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mae-jemison
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:40:01.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mae-jemison"
name: "Mae Jemison"
slug: "mae-jemison"
description: "Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected for the STS-47 mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992."
tagline: "American doctor and NASA astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mae_Carol_Jemison.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1956-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           24.74034
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 99
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump