# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cicely-saunders
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:26.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cicely-saunders"
name: "Cicely Saunders"
slug: "cicely-saunders"
description: "Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia."
tagline: "English writer, doctor, founder of the hospice care movement, palliative care activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EWS21.13.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-06-22"
deathDate: "2005-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             7.261983873825979
  historical:           20.05757466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump