# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joyce-newton-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:09:37.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joyce-newton-thompson"
name: "Joyce Newton-Thompson"
slug: "joyce-newton-thompson"
description: "Joyce Newton-Thompson was a British-born South African politician, community organizer and author. Growing up in London, England, she was active in the British women's suffrage movement. After immigrating to Cape Town, South Africa, with her husband in 1919, Newton-Thompson became involved in organizing community initiatives such as free meals for schoolchildren and the first birth control clinic in the city."
tagline: "South African politician and author"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893"
deathDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.468862666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Newton-Thompson"
    title: "Joyce Newton-Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Newton-Thompson"
    title: "Joyce Newton-Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Newton-Thompson"
    title: "Joyce Newton-Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Newton-Thompson"
    title: "Joyce Newton-Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Newton-Thompson"
    title: "Joyce Newton-Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Newton-Thompson"
    title: "Joyce Newton-Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104636238"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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