# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/candace-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:08:24.121Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/candace-nelson"
name: "Candace Nelson"
slug: "candace-nelson"
description: "Candace Nelson is an Indonesian-born American pastry chef and judge on the television series Cupcake Wars and Sugar Rush."
tagline: "Indonesian-born American pastry chef"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Candace_Nelson_-_Entrepreneurial_Women.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1974-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.11
  momentum:             15.22174608680085
  historical:           4.697776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 119
sources:
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "ক্যান্ডেস নেলসন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Nelson"
    title: "Candace Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Nelson"
    title: "Candace Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Nelson"
    title: "Candace Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Nelson"
    title: "Candace Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5031568"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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