# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willa-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:12:57.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willa-brown"
name: "Willa Brown"
slug: "willa-brown"
description: "Willa Beatrice Brown was an American aviator, lobbyist, teacher, and civil rights activist. She was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States, the first African American woman to run for the United States Congress, first African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol, and first woman in the U.S. to have both a pilot's license and an aircraft mechanic's license."
tagline: "American pilot and aviation educator (1906-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%22Willa_Beatrice_Brown%2C_a_31-year-old_Negro_American%2C_serves_her_country_by_training_pilots_for_the_U.S._Army_Air_Forces._-_NARA_-_535717.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1906-01-22"
deathDate: "1992-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.2243
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump