# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denise-darvall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:16:10.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denise-darvall"
name: "Denise Darvall"
slug: "denise-darvall"
description: "Denise Darvall  was the donor in the world's first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a team of surgeons led by Christiaan Barnard."
tagline: "South African organ donor (1942-1967)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1942-02-27"
deathDate: "1967-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.45
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.245828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B7_%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Деніз Дарваль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Darvall"
    title: "Denise Darvall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Darvall"
    title: "Denise Darvall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Darvall"
    title: "Denise Darvall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Darvall"
    title: "Denise Darvall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Darvall"
    title: "Denise Darvall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Darvall"
    title: "Denise Darvall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Darvall"
    title: "Denise Darvall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540893"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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