# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/florence-violet-mckenzie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:38:10.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/florence-violet-mckenzie"
name: "Florence Violet McKenzie"
slug: "florence-violet-mckenzie"
description: "Florence Violet McKenzie, affectionately known as \"Mrs Mac\", was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC) and lifelong promoter of technical education for women. She campaigned successfully to have some of her female trainees accepted into the all-male Navy, thereby originating the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). Some 12,000 servicemen passed through her signal instruction school in Sydney, acquiring skill in Morse code and visual signalling."
tagline: "Australian electrical engineer (1890-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Florence_Violet_McKenzie_in_WESC_uniform.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1890-09-28"
deathDate: "1982-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.77
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.944277333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Florence Violet McKenzie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فلورنس ماكنزي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فلورنس ماكنزى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Violet McKenzie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie"
    title: "Florence Violet McKenzie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie"
    title: "Florence Violet McKenzie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%B2%DB%8C"
    title: "فلورانس ویولت مک‌کنزی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie"
    title: "Florence Violet McKenzie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie"
    title: "Florence Violet McKenzie"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie"
    title: "Florence Violet McKenzie"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump