# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-r-gilruth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:09:56.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-r-gilruth"
name: "Robert R. Gilruth"
slug: "robert-r-gilruth"
description: "Robert Rowe Gilruth was an American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer who was the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center."
tagline: "American aerospace engineer (1913–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Gilruth_S87-26820.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1913-10-08"
deathDate: "2000-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump