# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marianne-merchez
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:21:45.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marianne-merchez"
name: "Marianne Merchez"
slug: "marianne-merchez"
description: "Marianne Merchez is a Belgian doctor from the Catholic University of Louvain and a former European Space Agency astronaut.\nShe is certified in aerospace medicine and in industrial medicine, and she is also a professional pilot."
tagline: "Belgian astronaut"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             1.740890688259109
  historical:           11.61044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mariannemerchez.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81"
    title: "Маріанна Мерчес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ماريان ميرشيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ماريان ميرشيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchez"
    title: "Marianne Merchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchezov%C3%A1"
    title: "Marianne Merchezová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchez"
    title: "Marianne Merchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchez"
    title: "Marianne Merchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchez"
    title: "Marianne Merchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ماریان مرچز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchez"
    title: "Marianne Merchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC"
    title: "मारियान मर्चेज़"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchez"
    title: "Marianne Merchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchez"
    title: "Marianne Merchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Merchez"
    title: "Marianne Merchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533560"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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