# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mamitu-gashe
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:25.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mamitu-gashe"
name: "Mamitu Gashe"
slug: "mamitu-gashe"
description: "Mamitu Gashe is an Ethiopian surgeon who is a specialist in repairing obstetric fistula, and was named by the BBC in its 100 Women list of 2018. She had decided to become an obstetrics surgeon after almost dying during childbirth at the age of 16 in 1962."
tagline: "Fistula surgeon in Ethiopia"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_de_Mamitu_Gashe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39
  momentum:             3.855421686746988
  historical:           6.137473333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%92"
    title: "ممیتو گاشے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamitu_Gashe"
    title: "Mamitu Gashe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamitu_Gashe"
    title: "Mamitu Gashe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamitu_Gashe"
    title: "Mamitu Gashe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamitu_Gashe"
    title: "Mamitu Gashe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82_%D4%B3%D5%A1%D5%B7%D5%A5"
    title: "Մամիտու Գաշե"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%83"
    title: "Гаше, Мамиту"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58916399"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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