# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-hughes-gossett
# Generated: 2026-08-20T18:33:01.566Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-hughes-gossett"
name: "Elizabeth Hughes Gossett"
slug: "elizabeth-hughes-gossett"
description: "Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett, the daughter of statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes. She received over 42,000 insulin shots over her lifetime."
tagline: "First American treated with insulin for diabetes (1907–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elizabeth_Hughes_Gossett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1907-08-19"
deathDate: "1981-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.427036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hughes_Gossett"
    title: "Elizabeth Hughes Gossett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hughes_Gossett"
    title: "Elizabeth Hughes Gossett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5363005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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