# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-d-griffin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:45:53.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-d-griffin"
name: "Michael D. Griffin"
slug: "michael-d-griffin"
description: "Michael Douglas Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the under secretary of defense for research and engineering from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as deputy of technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, and as administrator of NASA from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA administrator, Griffin oversaw such areas as private spaceflight, future human spaceflight to Mars, and the fate of the Hubble telescope."
tagline: "American physicist and aerospace engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_D._Griffin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1949-11-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump