# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wally-funk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:24:28.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wally-funk"
name: "Wally Funk"
slug: "wally-funk"
description: "Mary Wallace Funk is an American aviator, commercial astronaut, and goodwill ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Administration inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13."
tagline: "American aviator and astronaut"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
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  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1939-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump