# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-o-paine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:29:35.388Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-o-paine"
name: "Thomas O. Paine"
slug: "thomas-o-paine"
description: "Thomas Otten Paine was an American engineer, scientist and advocate of space exploration, and was the third administrator of NASA, serving from March 21, 1969, to September 15, 1970."
tagline: "American scientist (1921-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Thomas_O._Paine_-_GPN-2002-000106.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-11-09"
deathDate: "1992-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2867469879518072
  historical:           10.62035066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas O. Paine"
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    title: "Thomas O. Paine"
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    title: "Thomas O. Paine"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump