# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vanessa-o-brien
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:18:14.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vanessa-o-brien"
name: "Vanessa O'Brien"
slug: "vanessa-o-brien"
description: "Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien is a British and American mountaineer, sub-orbital spaceflight participant, explorer, and former business executive. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and an Honorary Advisory Member of The Scientific Exploration Society (SES). Vanessa became a Dame of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, in 2023. O'Brien is also the author of To The Greatest Heights, a memoir detailing her mountaineering journey."
tagline: "American mountaineer (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vanessa-Obrien-Top-Of-Aiguille-Du-Midi-Chamonix-France.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1964-12-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             0.1719690455717971
  historical:           6.575921333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.vobonline.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%9E'%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%94%D0%BD"
    title: "Ванесса О'Браєн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "فانيسا أوبراين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_O%E2%80%99Brien"
    title: "Vanessa O’Brien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_O'Brien"
    title: "Vanessa O'Brien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ونسا اوبراین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_O'Brien"
    title: "Vanessa O'Brien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90_%E1%83%9D%E2%80%99%E1%83%91%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98"
    title: "ვანესა ო’ბრაიენი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13519806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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