# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cynthia-brewer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:55:40.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cynthia-brewer"
name: "Cynthia Brewer"
slug: "cynthia-brewer"
description: "Cynthia Ann Brewer is an American cartographer, author, and professor of geography at Pennsylvania State University. Brewer's specialty relates to visibility and color theory in cartography. In 2023, she was awarded the International Cartographic Association's highest honor, the Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal, for her distinguished contribution to the field."
tagline: "US-american geographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Cynthia_Brewer_-_Mannerfelt_Gold_Medal.jpg/330px-Cynthia_Brewer_-_Mannerfelt_Gold_Medal.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "ColorBrewer"
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    url:       "https://sites.psu.edu/cbrewer"
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    title: "Cynthia Brewerová"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Brewer"
    title: "Cynthia Brewer"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Brewer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump