# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katharine-whitehorn
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:24:11.288Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katharine-whitehorn"
name: "Katharine Whitehorn"
slug: "katharine-whitehorn"
description: "Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn was a British journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter. She was the first woman to have a column in The Observer, which ran from 1963 to 1996 and from 2011 to 2017. She was the first female rector of a university in Scotland. Her books include Cooking in a Bedsitter (1961)."
tagline: "British writer (1928–2021)"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1928-03-02"
deathDate: "2021-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2853351"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump