# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elza-medeiros
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:01.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elza-medeiros"
name: "Elza Medeiros"
slug: "elza-medeiros"
description: "Elza Cansanção Medeiros, popularly known as Major Elza, was a Brazilian Army officer and World War II veteran. She was the highest-ranking female officer in the Brazilian Army with the rank of Major, having deployed to Italy during the war along with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force as a nurse. Medeiros used to lecture about the Brazilian participation in World War II."
tagline: "Brazilian Army officer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elza_Medeiros.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1921-10-21"
deathDate: "2009-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.24
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.610908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elza_Medeiros"
    title: "Elza Medeiros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "الزا ميديروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elza_Medeiros"
    title: "Elza Medeiros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Elza"
    title: "Major Elza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9"
    title: "エルサ・メデイロス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elza_Cansan%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Medeiros"
    title: "Elza Cansanção Medeiros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5368625"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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