# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alene-duerk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:13.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alene-duerk"
name: "Alene Duerk"
slug: "alene-duerk"
description: "Alene Bertha Duerk became the first female admiral in the U.S. Navy in 1972. She was also the director of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps from 1970 to 1975. She is a 1974 recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award of Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing."
tagline: "United States Navy admiral (1920–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alene_Duerk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1920-03-29"
deathDate: "2018-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.75
  momentum:             8.00204918032787
  historical:           4.609792000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alene_Duerk"
    title: "Alene Duerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alene_B._Duerk"
    title: "Alene B. Duerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alene_Duerk"
    title: "Alene Duerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A9"
    title: "آلین دورک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alene_Duerk"
    title: "Alene Duerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2640976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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