# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taylor-g-wang
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:38:33.433Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taylor-g-wang"
name: "Taylor G. Wang"
slug: "taylor-g-wang"
description: "Taylor Gun-Jin Wang is a Chinese-born Taiwanese-American scientist who in 1985 became the first person of Chinese origin to go into space. While an employee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wang was a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-B."
tagline: "American materials engineer and astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Taylor_Wang_-_full.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.901124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Taylor Wang"
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    title: "Taylor Wang"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Taylor Wang"
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    title: "Taylor Wang"
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    title: "Taylor Wang"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump