# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/candida-xu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:30:46.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/candida-xu"
name: "Candida Xu"
slug: "candida-xu"
description: "Candida Xu or Candida Su, was a Chinese Catholic who lived in late Ming and early Qing China. She has been called \"arguably the most influential Chinese Christian woman of the seventeenth century.\" She is also, according to records, likely the first Chinese woman who learned Latin."
tagline: "Chinese Christian patron of late Ming and early Qing"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MU_20_H_23_-_Philippe_Couplet_-_Historie_van_eene_groote%2C_christene_mevrouwe_van_China_(Candida_Hiu)_-_015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1607-09-04"
deathDate: "1680-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.09
  momentum:             6.874999999999998
  historical:           7.009936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AE%B8%E5%BE%90%E7%94%98%E7%AC%AC%E5%A4%A7"
    title: "许徐甘第大"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_Xu"
    title: "Candida Xu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndida_Xu"
    title: "Cándida Xu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ndida_Xu"
    title: "Cándida Xu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_Xu"
    title: "Candida Xu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_Siu"
    title: "Candida Siu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_Xu"
    title: "Candida Xu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_Xu"
    title: "Candida Xu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11963072"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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