# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elaine-chao
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:28:52.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elaine-chao"
name: "Elaine Chao"
slug: "elaine-chao"
description: "Elaine Lan Chao is a Taiwanese-American businesswoman and former government official who served as United States secretary of labor in the administration of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 and as United States secretary of transportation in the first administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Chao was the first Asian-American woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. She resigned as transportation secretary after the January 6 United States Capitol attack."
tagline: "18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elaine_Chao_official_portrait_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1953-03-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 440
platforms:
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    handle:    "SecElaineChao"
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    handle:    "SecElaineChao"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump