# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-tibbets
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:48:19.855Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-tibbets"
name: "Paul Tibbets"
slug: "paul-tibbets"
description: "Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima."
tagline: "United States Air Force pilot (1915–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_W_Tibbets_USAF_bio_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1915-02-23"
deathDate: "2007-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump