# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katharine-dexter-mccormick
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:03:28.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katharine-dexter-mccormick"
name: "Katharine Dexter McCormick"
slug: "katharine-dexter-mccormick"
description: "Katharine Dexter McCormick was an American suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill."
tagline: "American philanthropist (1875–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katharine_McCormick_on_April_22%2C_1913.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1875-08-27"
deathDate: "1967-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.68
  momentum:             14.45895917072139
  historical:           10.053712
  currentAttention:     16.7624521072797
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Dexter_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine Dexter McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "کاترین دکستر مک‌کورمیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick"
    title: "Katharine McCormick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6376216"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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