# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-wadham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:51:05.695Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-wadham"
name: "Dorothy Wadham"
slug: "dorothy-wadham"
description: "Dorothy Wadham was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Wadham was the first woman who was not a member of the royal family or titled aristocracy to found a college at Oxford or Cambridge. Her husband was Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and of Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon."
tagline: "Founder of an Oxford College; (1534-1618)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothy_Petre_Mrs_Wadham.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1534"
deathDate: "1618-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.88
  momentum:             4.292237442922374
  historical:           5.011268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "دوروثي وادهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Wadham"
    title: "Dorothy Wadham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Wadham"
    title: "Dorothy Wadham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Wadham"
    title: "Dorothy Wadham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Wadham"
    title: "Dorothy Wadham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5298667"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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