# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-wake-tryon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:36:17.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-wake-tryon"
name: "Margaret Wake Tryon"
slug: "margaret-wake-tryon"
description: "Margaret Wake Tryon was an English heiress and the wife of William Tryon, who served as the Colonial Governor of North Carolina and the Colonial Governor of New York. The eponym of Wake County in North Carolina, she is one of three women, along with Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Virginia Dare, to have a North Carolinian county named after her. She was known for her interest in military strategy, which was controversial for upper-class women of her time."
tagline: "English heiress and wife of William Tryon"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Margaret_Wake_Tryon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1732"
deathDate: "1819"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.99
  momentum:             6.81904761904762
  historical:           1.565121333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wake_Tryon"
    title: "Margaret Wake Tryon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65557435"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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