# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-w-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:28:40.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-w-richards"
name: "Paul W. Richards"
slug: "paul-w-richards"
description: "Paul William Richards is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard one Space Shuttle mission in 2001."
tagline: "American engineer and NASA astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Richards.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1964-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.55555555555556
  historical:           14.87786266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Пол Ричардс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul William Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul W. Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul W. Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul W. Richards"
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    title: "Paul W. Richards"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul W. Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Richards"
    title: "Paul Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_W._Richards"
    title: "Paul W. Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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