# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/florence-chadwick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:58:11.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/florence-chadwick"
name: "Florence Chadwick"
slug: "florence-chadwick"
description: "Florence May Chadwick was an American swimmer known for long-distance open water swimming. She was the first woman to swim across the English Channel in both directions, setting a time record each time. She was also the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bosporus, and the Dardanelles."
tagline: "American swimmer (1918-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Florence_Chadwick_1963.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1918-11-09"
deathDate: "1995-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.62
  momentum:             1.347517730496454
  historical:           10.99543333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Florence Chadwick"
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    title: "Florence Chadwick"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Chadwick"
    title: "Florence Chadwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Chadwick"
    title: "Florence Chadwick"
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    title: "Florence Chadwick"
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    title: "ഫ്ലോറൻസ് ചാഡ്‍വിക്ക്"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump