# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-shepherd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:22:39.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-shepherd"
name: "William Shepherd"
slug: "william-shepherd"
description: "William McMichael Shepherd, , is an American former Navy SEAL, aerospace, ocean, and mechanical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station. He is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Shepherd.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.19874533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Shepherd"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump