# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bessie-blount-griffin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:37:29.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bessie-blount-griffin"
name: "Bessie Blount Griffin"
slug: "bessie-blount-griffin"
description: "Bessie Virginia Griffin, better known as Bessie Blount, was an African American writer, nurse, physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist. Blount was known for her groundbreaking work in assistive technologies and forensic sciences."
tagline: "American physical therapist (1914-2009)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-11-24"
deathDate: "2009-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.684702666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Blount_Griffin"
    title: "Bessie Blount Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Blount_Griffin"
    title: "Bessie Blount Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Blount_Griffin"
    title: "Bessie Blount Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Blount_Griffin"
    title: "Bessie Blount Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Blount_Griffin"
    title: "Bessie Blount Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Blount_(fisioterapista)"
    title: "Bessie Blount (fisioterapista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Blount_Griffin"
    title: "Bessie Blount Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Blount_Griffin"
    title: "Bessie Blount Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8C%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AB%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "బెస్సీ బ్లౌంట్ గ్రిఫిన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4896462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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