# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henrietta-leakey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:31:41.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henrietta-leakey"
name: "Henrietta Leakey"
slug: "henrietta-leakey"
description: "Henrietta Wilfrida \"Frida\" Leakey; née Avern, also known as H. Wilfrida Leakey, was a British teacher and archaeological illustrator who discovered a gorge that was named FLK or \"Frida Leakey Korongo\". The gorge was the site of ancient stone tools and important human fossil discoveries. Leakey was the first wife of paleoanthropologist and archaeologist, Louis Leakey. She later became a leader in the Women's Institute and a County Councillor in Cambridgeshire."
tagline: "First wife of Louis Leakey"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Frida_Leakey_obit_picture.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1902"
deathDate: "1993-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.51
  momentum:             4.615384615384617
  historical:           1.540569333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Leakey"
    title: "Frida Leakey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18528256"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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