# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-golda-ross
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:15:36.255Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-golda-ross"
name: "Mary Golda Ross"
slug: "mary-golda-ross"
description: "Mary Golda Ross was a Cherokee and American aerospace engineer. She worked at the Lockheed Corporation from 1942 until her retirement in 1973, where she was best remembered for her work on aerospace design. She was one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Skunk Works project while at Lockheed Corporation. Throughout her life, Ross was dedicated to the advancement of young women and Native Americans in STEM fields. Ten years after her death, in 2018, Ross was chosen to be depicted on the 2019 Native American $1 Coin by the U.S. Mint celebrating Native Americans in the space program."
tagline: "American aerospace engineer, first Native American female engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_G._Ross_Sculpture_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1908-08-09"
deathDate: "2008-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.420304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "מרי ג. רוס"
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    title: "Mary G. Ross"
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    title: "Mary G. Ross"
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    title: "Mary Golda Ross"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_G._Ross"
    title: "Mary G. Ross"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump