# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donda-west
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:39:16.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donda-west"
name: "Donda West"
slug: "donda-west"
description: "Donda Clairann West was an American educator and chair of Chicago State University's Department of English, Communications, Media, and Theater. She was best known for being the mother of American rapper Kanye West."
tagline: "American professor and the mother of Kanye West (1949-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donda_West.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-07-12"
deathDate: "2007-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.24
  momentum:             1.738048693797761
  historical:           6.766445333333333
  currentAttention:     9.655826076654227
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2264808/"
    handle:    "nm2264808"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_West"
    title: "Donda West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_West"
    title: "Donda West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_West"
    title: "Donda West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_West"
    title: "Donda West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donda_West"
    title: "Donda West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60633179"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3421366"
    title: "Donda West"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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