# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-rayford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:09:20.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-rayford"
name: "Robert Rayford"
slug: "robert-rayford"
description: "Robert Lee Rayford, sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who some have theorized was the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that medical evidence indicated that Rayford was \"infected with a virus closely related or identical to human immunodeficiency virus type 1.\""
tagline: "American teenager who died in 1969, thought to be the first death from AIDS in North America"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1953-02-03"
deathDate: "1969-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.02735066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Роберт Рейфорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rayford"
    title: "Robert Rayford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rayford"
    title: "Robert Rayford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rayford"
    title: "Robert Rayford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rayford"
    title: "Robert Rayford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%B8%D5%A2%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BF_%D5%8C%D5%A5%D5%B5%D6%86%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%A4"
    title: "Ռոբերտ Ռեյֆորդ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R."
    title: "Robert R."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R."
    title: "Robert R."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rayford"
    title: "Robert Rayford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rayford"
    title: "Robert Rayford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Рейфорд, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rayford"
    title: "Robert Rayford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288055"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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