# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laxmi-sharma
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:27.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laxmi-sharma"
name: "Laxmi Sharma"
slug: "laxmi-sharma"
description: "Laxmi Sharma is a Nepali entrepreneur. She is credited as the first woman to drive an auto-rickshaw and went on to establish the first button factory in Nepal. Sharma was married at a young age, after getting a divorce she worked as a housemaid for sixteen years. Later, she started to drive a rickshaw. Though she was harassed for being a woman driver, she went on to open Laxmi Wood Craft Udhyog, a company that made buttons. The buttons were exported to Germany, Switzerland, Zambia, Denmark and the USA."
tagline: "A first lady tempo driver of Nepal"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laxmi_Sharma_2_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           35.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.736105333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Laxmi Sharma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "লক্ষ্মী শর্মা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxmi_Sharma"
    title: "Laxmi Sharma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "लक्ष्मी शर्मा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "लक्ष्मी शर्मा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "लक्ष्मी शर्मा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "இலட்சுமி சர்மா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62604242"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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