# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ligia-fonseca
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:16:55.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ligia-fonseca"
name: "Lígia Fonseca"
slug: "ligia-fonseca"
description: "Lígia Arcângela Lubrino Dias Fonseca is a Cape Verdean lawyer, activist, and politician who has served as the First Lady of Cape Verde from 2011 until 2021. Fonseca became the first female president of the Cape Verdean Lawyers' Association (OAC), the country's national bar association, in 2001. She is married to Cape Verdean former President Jorge Carlos Fonseca."
tagline: "Cape Verdean lawyer, activist, and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ligia_Fonseca.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1963-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.243567753001716
  historical:           10.10075866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ليجيا فونسيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lígia Lubrino Dias Fonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADgia_Fonseca"
    title: "Lígia Fonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADgia_Fonseca"
    title: "Lígia Fonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADgia_Fonseca"
    title: "Lígia Fonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADgia_Fonseca"
    title: "Lígia Fonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADgia_Fonseca"
    title: "Lígia Fonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADgia_Fonseca"
    title: "Lígia Fonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Лигия Фонсека"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lígia Fonseca"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump