# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-chinchilla
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:31:51.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-chinchilla"
name: "Laura Chinchilla"
slug: "laura-chinchilla"
description: "Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election, where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first woman to become President of Costa Rica. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010."
tagline: "46th President of Costa Rica"
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gender: "female"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1959-03-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump