# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cathy-ferguson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:05:02.957Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cathy-ferguson"
name: "Cathy Ferguson"
slug: "cathy-ferguson"
description: "Cathy Jean Ferguson, known for a time by her married name Cathy Ferguson Brennan is an American former competition swimmer, who competed for the Los Angeles Athletic Club, was a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and a former world record-holder. She participated at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, where she received the gold medal for winning the women's 100-meter backstroke, and another gold as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay. After completing a Doctorate from the U.S. International University in San Diego, she worked as a Professor, Coach and Director of Aquatics at California State University, Long Beach for 20 years, was a director of Sports Medicine at Anaheim Memorial Hospital, and served as a CEO for Girl Scouts of Central California."
tagline: "American swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cathy_Ferguson_-_UCLA_Library_Digital_Collections_(uclalat_1429_b535_225811-1)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1948-07-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.79
  momentum:             5.853658536585366
  historical:           17.015624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Cathy Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Ferguson"
    title: "Cathy Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Ferguson"
    title: "Cathy Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cathy Ferguson"
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    title: "Cathy Ferguson"
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    title: "Cathy Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Ferguson"
    title: "Cathy Ferguson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cathy Ferguson"
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    title: "Кеті Ферґюсон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump