# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christian-maclagan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:11:32.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christian-maclagan"
name: "Christian Maclagan"
slug: "christian-maclagan"
description: "Christian Maclagan was a Scottish antiquarian and early archaeologist, described by one author as \"the earliest female archaeologist in the British Isles,\" and certainly among the earliest examples. She is known for her collection of rubbings of Celtic crosses and Pictish stones from across Scotland, and was a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation. Although she lost the use of her right hand due to a medical condition she nevertheless produced numerous drawings, sketches and paintings with her left hand. She took action to help those affected by poverty in Stirling. She refused to sit for portraits although one obituary described her as tall. She was a suffragist. She wrote an autobiography but the script remains lost. She was nominated to be one of Scotland's Heroines honoured at the National Wallace Monument's Hall of Heroes."
tagline: "British antiquary and archaeologist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Christian_Maclagan%27s_Grave_in_Stirling%27s_Old_Town_Cemetery.jpg/330px-Christian_Maclagan%27s_Grave_in_Stirling%27s_Old_Town_Cemetery.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1811"
deathDate: "1901-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.536681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Maclagan"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Maclagan"
    title: "Christian Maclagan"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Maclagan"
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    title: "Christian Maclagan"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5109875"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump