# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-s-collins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:46:20.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-s-collins"
name: "Margaret S. Collins"
slug: "margaret-s-collins"
description: "Margaret James Strickland Collins was an African-American child prodigy, entomologist (zoologist) specializing in the study of termites, and a civil rights advocate. Collins was nicknamed the \"Termite Lady\" because of her extensive research on termites. Together with David Nickle, Collins identified a new species of termite called Neotermes luykxi. When Collins earned her PhD., she became the first African American female entomologist and the third African American female zoologist."
tagline: "African-American entomologist, zoologist and civil rights advocate (1922–1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Margaret_S._Collins.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1922-09-04"
deathDate: "1996-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مارغريت إس. كولينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Margaret Collins"
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    title: "Margaret S. Collins"
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    title: "Margaret S. Collins"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_S._Collins"
    title: "Margaret S. Collins"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_S._Collins"
    title: "Margaret S. Collins"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_James_Strickland_Collins"
    title: "Margaret James Strickland Collins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_S._Collins"
    title: "Margaret S. Collins"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_James_Strickland_Collins"
    title: "Margaret James Strickland Collins"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19662936"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump