# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amber-mclaughlin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:26:53.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amber-mclaughlin"
name: "Amber McLaughlin"
slug: "amber-mclaughlin"
description: "Amber McLaughlin was an American criminal executed in Missouri for the 2003 rape and murder of her ex-girlfriend, Beverly Guenther. At the time of the crime, McLaughlin was living as male; she transitioned from male to female while incarcerated. McLaughlin became the first openly transgender person to be executed in the United States. Her legal name remained her birth name, Scott A. McLaughlin, and she was identified as such in her death warrant and in prison records."
tagline: "The first transgender woman that was executed in the United States"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Amber_McLaughlin.jpeg/330px-Amber_McLaughlin.jpeg"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1973-01-13"
deathDate: "2023-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.32
  momentum:             11.06539466021845
  historical:           6.942745333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%95%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Маклафлін Ембер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_McLaughlin"
    title: "Amber McLaughlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_McLaughlin"
    title: "Amber McLaughlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_McLaughlin"
    title: "Amber McLaughlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "امبر مک‌لافلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Маклафлин, Эмбер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_McLaughlin"
    title: "Amber McLaughlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116034125"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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