# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-jennings-hegar
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:36:17.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-jennings-hegar"
name: "Mary Jennings Hegar"
slug: "mary-jennings-hegar"
description: "Mary Jennings Hegar is an American United States Air Force veteran and former political candidate. In 2012, she sued the U.S. Air Force to remove the Combat Exclusion Policy. In 2017, she published the memoir Shoot Like a Girl, which describes her service in Afghanistan."
tagline: "American Air Force veteran, politician, author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MJ_Hegar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1976-03-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           63.12
  momentum:             10
  historical:           6.699612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 2590
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mjhegar"
    handle:    "mjhegar"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mjfortexas/"
    handle:    "mjfortexas"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MJforTexas"
    handle:    "MJforTexas"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7429792/"
    handle:    "nm7429792"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mjfortexas.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPmv1X5NSogezwrUrcPuIwQ"
    handle:    "@mjfortexas"
    followers: 2590
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/MJ_Hegar"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B2_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "مارى جينينجز هيجار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._J._Hegar"
    title: "M. J. Hegar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jennings_Hegar"
    title: "Mary Jennings Hegar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._J._Hegar"
    title: "M. J. Hegar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MJ_Hegar"
    title: "MJ Hegar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BD%D2%91%D0%B7_%D0%93%D0%B5%D2%91%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Мері Дженнінґз Геґар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%AC%DB%92_%DB%81%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "ایم جے ہیگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27881228"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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