# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-fossett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:05:40.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-fossett"
name: "Steve Fossett"
slug: "steve-fossett"
description: "James Stephen Fossett was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot."
tagline: "American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steven_Fosset_flygare_och_%C3%A4ventyrare.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1944-04-22"
deathDate: "2007-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.36
  momentum:             1.020518358531317
  historical:           21.25060133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.stevefossett.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump