# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louise-bennett-coverley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:31:43.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louise-bennett-coverley"
name: "Louise Bennett-Coverley"
slug: "louise-bennett-coverley"
description: "Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley , known by her pen name Miss Lou, was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, actress, writer and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois, establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression."
tagline: "Poet, writer and folklorist (1919-2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/Louise_Bennett.jpg/330px-Louise_Bennett.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1919-09-07"
deathDate: "2006-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.19510933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071894/"
    handle:    "nm0071894"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.louisebennett.com/"
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    title: "Louise Bennett-Coverley"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Louise Bennett"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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