# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-speicher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:40:05.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-speicher"
name: "Scott Speicher"
slug: "scott-speicher"
description: "Michael Scott Speicher was a naval aviator in the United States Navy who was shot down over Iraq during the Persian Gulf War becoming the first American combat casualty of the war. His fate was not known until 2 August 2009, when the U.S. Navy reported that Speicher's remains had been found in Iraq by the United States military. He is also the most recent American to have been shot down in air-to-air combat."
tagline: "USN pilot killed in Iraq (1957-1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Scott_Speicher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1957-07-12"
deathDate: "1991-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.19
  momentum:             1.969465648854962
  historical:           6.681005333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Speicher"
    title: "Scott Speicher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "سكوت سبايكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Speicher"
    title: "Scott Speicher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Speicher"
    title: "Scott Speicher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "اسکات اسپایکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Speicher"
    title: "Scott Speicher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Спайкер, Майкл Скотт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348211"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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