# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hetta-empson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:47:10.936Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hetta-empson"
name: "Hetta Empson"
slug: "hetta-empson"
description: "Hester Henrietta (Hetta) Crouse Empson (1915–1996) was a South African sculptor. She was described as a \"sculptor, political activist, adventurer and socialite\" in her obituary in the Times. She and her husband William Empson were involved in the London bohemian group that included George Orwell, Louis MacNeice, Jill Neville, Fay Weldon, Lewis Wolpert and Kathleen Raine."
tagline: "South African sculptor, wife of William Empson"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Photo_of_Hetta_Empson.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1915"
deathDate: "1996"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.66
  momentum:             8.147901399067287
  historical:           3.069582666666667
  currentAttention:     43.85964912280701
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetta_Empson"
    title: "Hetta Empson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetta_Empson"
    title: "Hetta Empson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetta_Empson"
    title: "Hetta Empson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27551614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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