# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:47:21.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-shaw"
name: "Margaret Shaw"
slug: "margaret-shaw"
description: "Margaret Fay Shaw was a pioneering Scottish-American ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, and scholar of Celtic studies. She is best known for her meticulous work as a folk song and folklore collector among Scottish Gaelic-speakers in the Hebrides, Canadian Gaelic-speaking communities in Nova Scotia, and among Connaught Irish speakers in the Aran Islands. Along with her husband, literary scholar John Lorne Campbell, Shaw helped lay the foundation for both the modern Scottish Gaelic Renaissance and heritage language revival using Scottish Gaelic-medium education."
tagline: "American folklorist and musicologist (1903-2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Margaret_Fay_Shaw_died_2004.webp"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1903-11-09"
deathDate: "2004-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.76
  momentum:             4.666202090592334
  historical:           5.280166666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairead_Fay_Sheathach"
    title: "Mairead Fay Sheathach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fay_Shaw"
    title: "Margaret Fay Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fay_Shaw"
    title: "Margaret Fay Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%83"
    title: "Маргарет Фей Шоу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairead_Fay_Sheathach"
    title: "Mairead Fay Sheathach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fay_Shaw"
    title: "Margaret Fay Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18733084"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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