# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/avvaiyar-q118500995
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:03:43.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/avvaiyar-q118500995"
name: "Avvaiyar"
slug: "avvaiyar-q118500995"
description: "Avvaiyar was a Tamil poet who lived during the Sangam period. She wrote 59 poems in the Puṟanāṉūṟu. and is said to have had cordial relations with the Tamil chieftains Vēl Pāri and Athiyamān. A plaque on a statue of the poet in Chennai suggests the first century BCE for her birthdate. The name Avvaiyar in Tamil is defined as a respectable good woman and was considered an honorific. Her given name is not known."
tagline: "Tamil poet, possibly first century BCE birthdate"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Statue_of_Avvaiyar.jpg/330px-Statue_of_Avvaiyar.jpg"
gender: "female"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           45.79
  momentum:             0.6729559748427674
  historical:           5.794425333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "అవ్వైయార్ (సంగం కవయిత్రి)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0"
    title: "অভয়াৰ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avvaiyar_(Sangam_poet)"
    title: "Avvaiyar (Sangam poet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avvaiyar_(Mawakiya_ta_Sangam)"
    title: "Avvaiyar (Mawakiya ta Sangam)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avvaiyar_(onye_na-ede_uri_Sangam)"
    title: "Avvaiyar (onye na-ede uri Sangam)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avvaiyar_(poetessa_I_secolo_a._C.)"
    title: "Avvaiyar (poetessa I secolo a. C.)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%94%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_(%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D)"
    title: "ஔவையார் (சங்ககாலப் புலவர்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118500995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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