# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-frederick-fisher
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:16.002Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-frederick-fisher"
name: "William Frederick Fisher"
slug: "william-frederick-fisher"
description: "William Frederick Fisher is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in 1992 and returned to the full-time practice of medicine. His time at NASA coincided with that of his then wife and fellow astronaut Anna Lee Fisher."
tagline: "American astronaut (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Frederick_Fisher_(Astronaut).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.90371066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William F. Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وليام فريدريك فيشر"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уилям Фишър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Fisher"
    title: "William Frederick Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Fisher"
    title: "William Frederick Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Fisher"
    title: "William Frederick Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ویلیام فدریک فیشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William F. Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Fisher"
    title: "William Frederick Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Fisher"
    title: "William Frederick Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Fisher"
    title: "William Frederick Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Fisher"
    title: "William Frederick Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Fisher"
    title: "William F. Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Frederick_Fisher"
    title: "William Frederick Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fisher_(ruimtevaarder)"
    title: "William Fisher (ruimtevaarder)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fisher"
    title: "William Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Фишер, Уильям Фредерик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump