# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-bridgman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:37:46.141Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-bridgman"
name: "Laura Bridgman"
slug: "laura-bridgman"
description: "Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman’s friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Braille and the manual alphabet developed by Charles-Michel de l'Épée."
tagline: "American deaf-blind woman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laura_Bridgman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1829-12-21"
deathDate: "1889-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.44889333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Laura Bridgman"
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    title: "Laura Bridgman"
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    title: "Laura Bridgman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump