# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/candy-carson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:49:26.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/candy-carson"
name: "Candy Carson"
slug: "candy-carson"
description: "Lacena Carson is an American author and educator. She is married to former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, with whom she co-founded the Carson Scholars Fund in 1994. Alongside her husband, she is the co-author of four books. During his 2016 run for President of the United States, Carson was active on the campaign trail by conducting live interviews and television appearances."
tagline: "Wife of Ben Carson"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Ben_Carson_in_New_Hampshire_on_August_13th%2C_2015_1_by_Michael_Vadon_23.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.86
  momentum:             3.942822384428224
  historical:           3.479262666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  73
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1497473/"
    handle:    "nm1497473"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كاندي كارسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Carson"
    title: "Candy Carson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Carson"
    title: "Candy Carson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20177023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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