# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edith-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:38:11.716Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edith-hamilton"
name: "Edith Hamilton"
slug: "edith-hamilton"
description: "Edith Hamilton was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at Leipzig University and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Hamilton began her career as an educator and head of the Bryn Mawr School, a private college preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, Maryland; however, Hamilton is best known for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations."
tagline: "American teacher and writer (1867–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edith_Hamilton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1867-08-12"
deathDate: "1963-05-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: 248
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump