# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bessie-stringfield
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:45:46.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bessie-stringfield"
name: "Bessie Stringfield"
slug: "bessie-stringfield"
description: "Bessie Stringfield, also known as the \"Motorcycle Queen of Miami\", was an American motorcyclist who was the first African-American woman to ride across the United States solo, and was one of the few civilian motorcycle dispatch riders for the US Army during World War II."
tagline: "American motorcycle rider"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/Bessie_Stringfield.jpg/330px-Bessie_Stringfield.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1911-02-09"
deathDate: "1993-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.62
  momentum:             7.394366197183098
  historical:           5.691902666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield"
    title: "Bessie Stringfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield"
    title: "Bessie Stringfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield"
    title: "Bessie Stringfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield"
    title: "Bessie Stringfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield"
    title: "Bessie Stringfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield"
    title: "Bessie Stringfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4896493"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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