# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-sipple
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:05:38.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-sipple"
name: "Oliver Sipple"
slug: "oliver-sipple"
description: "Oliver Wellington \"Billy\" Sipple was an American man known for intervening to foil an assassination attempt against U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975. A decorated U.S. Marine and disabled Vietnam War veteran, he grappled with Sara Jane Moore as she fired a pistol at Ford in San Francisco, causing her to miss."
tagline: "United States Marine (1941-1989)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1941-11-20"
deathDate: "1989-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.55
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.4505
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Сиппл, Оливер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sipple"
    title: "Oliver Sipple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sipple"
    title: "Oliver Sipple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sipple"
    title: "Oliver Sipple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sipple"
    title: "Oliver Sipple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A8_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%9C"
    title: "אוליבר סיפל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%AC%EB%A6%AC%EB%B2%84_%EC%8B%9C%ED%94%8C"
    title: "올리버 시플"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sipple"
    title: "Oliver Sipple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331382"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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