# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edith-irby-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:04:05.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edith-irby-jones"
name: "Edith Irby Jones"
slug: "edith-irby-jones"
description: "Edith Mae Irby Jones was an American physician who was the first woman president of the National Medical Association and a founding member of the Association of Black Cardiologists. She was honored by many awards, including induction into both the University of Arkansas College of Medicine Hall of Fame and the inaugural group of women inducted into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame. She was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the first Black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first Black intern in the state of Arkansas, and later first Black intern at Baylor College of Medicine."
tagline: "American physician (1927–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EdithIrbyJones.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-12-23"
deathDate: "2019-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.939705333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ایڈتھ ایربی جونز"
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    title: "اديث اربى جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Irby_Jones"
    title: "Edith Irby Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Irby_Jones"
    title: "Edith Irby Jones"
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    title: "എഡിത്ത് ഇർബി ജോൺസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Irby_Jones"
    title: "Edith Irby Jones"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22005685"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump