# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ginny-fiennes
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:57:35.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ginny-fiennes"
name: "Ginny Fiennes"
slug: "ginny-fiennes"
description: "Virginia Frances, Lady Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, known as Ginny Fiennes, was an English explorer. She was the first woman to be awarded the Polar Medal, and the first woman to be voted in to join the Antarctic Club in recognition of her research work for the British Antarctic Survey and University of Sheffield into very low frequency radio propagation. Her husband was adventurer Ranulph Fiennes."
tagline: "British explorer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/GinnyFiennesPhoto.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1947-07-09"
deathDate: "2004-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.007889333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14641273/"
    handle:    "nm14641273"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginny_Fiennes"
    title: "Ginny Fiennes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginny_Fiennes"
    title: "Ginny Fiennes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginny_Fiennes"
    title: "Ginny Fiennes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Джинні Файнс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106787"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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