# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-vaughan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:02:05.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-vaughan"
name: "Dorothy Vaughan"
slug: "dorothy-vaughan"
description: "Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan was an American mathematician, human computer, computer programmer and schoolteacher who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center."
tagline: "African-American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothy_Johnson_Vaughan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-09-20"
deathDate: "2008-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.151162790697674
  historical:           21.79960133333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill