# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-a-downing
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:32:38.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-a-downing"
name: "Wayne A. Downing"
slug: "wayne-a-downing"
description: "Wayne Allan Downing was a four-star United States Army general born in Peoria, Illinois. He graduated from the United States Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962 and held a Master of Business Administration degree from Tulane University. He also served on the board of directors at a US Government focused high-tech company, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)."
tagline: "Retired four-star United States Army general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wayne_Downing.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1940-05-10"
deathDate: "2007-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.41
  momentum:             3.031358885017422
  historical:           5.711702666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wayne A. Downing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "واين أ. داونينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "واين ا. داونينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Вейн Даунінг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%93%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92"
    title: "ויין דאונינג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%A3%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Даунинг, Уэйн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4155287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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