# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gertrude-de-ferranti
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:39:47.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gertrude-de-ferranti"
name: "Gertrude de Ferranti"
slug: "gertrude-de-ferranti"
description: "Gertrude Ruth de Ferranti-Kirkwood was a Welsh activist who campaigned for affordable and accessible electricity in the home, through her membership of the Electrical Association for Women and her work with her husband Sebastian de Ferranti. In 1936 she and Caroline Haslett were the only two women to attend the World Power Conference as representatives from the United Kingdom."
tagline: "British electrical engineer (1869 – 1959)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Only_two_women_delegates%2C_Washington%2C_D.C.%2C_September_8._Mrs._Gertrude_Ruth_Ziani_de_Ferranti_of_London%2C_England%2C_and_Miss_Caroline_Haslett_also_of_London_are_the_only_two_women_to_represent_LCCN2016878425.tif/lossy-page1-330px-thumbnail.tif.jpg"
gender: "female"
deathDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.76
  momentum:             0.3125
  historical:           1.535709333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_de_Ferranti"
    title: "Gertrude de Ferranti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127050982"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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