# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-gandy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:18:29.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-gandy"
name: "Helen Gandy"
slug: "helen-gandy"
description: "Helen Wilburforce Gandy was the American longtime secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, who called her \"indispensable\". Serving in that role for 54 years she exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the operations of the Bureau. Following Hoover's death in 1972, she spent weeks destroying his \"Personal File,\" thought to contain the most incriminating material Hoover used to manipulate or blackmail the most powerful figures in Washington."
tagline: "American civil servant (1897–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HelenWGandy_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1897-04-08"
deathDate: "1988-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.77
  momentum:             0.2737226277372262
  historical:           5.758322666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gandy"
    title: "Helen Gandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gandy"
    title: "Helen Gandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gandy"
    title: "Helen Gandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%DB%8C"
    title: "ہیلن گینڈی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gandy"
    title: "Helen Gandy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%97%AC%EB%A0%8C_%EA%B0%A0%EB%94%94"
    title: "헬렌 갠디"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3129614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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