# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-orosa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:01:29.447Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-orosa"
name: "Maria Orosa"
slug: "maria-orosa"
description: "María Orosa e Ylagan was a Filipina food technologist, pharmaceutical chemist, humanitarian, and war heroine. She experimented with foods native to the Philippines, and during World War II developed Soyalac and darak, which she also helped smuggle into Japanese-run internment camps that helped save the lives of thousands of Filipinos, Americans, and other nationals. She invented banana ketchup."
tagline: "Filipino chemist (1893-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Orosa_(1893-1945)_sitting.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1893-11-29"
deathDate: "1945-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.23989333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Orosa"
    title: "María Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "মারিয়া ওরোসা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maria Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%9F%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%B1"
    title: "Μαρία Ορόσα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Orosa"
    title: "María Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Y._Orosa"
    title: "María Y. Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Y._Orosa"
    title: "María Y. Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "ماریا اوروسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Orosa"
    title: "María Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%94"
    title: "מריה אורוסה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Orosa"
    title: "María Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Orosa"
    title: "Maria Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Orosa"
    title: "María Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Orosa"
    title: "Maria Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Orosa"
    title: "Maria Orosa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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