# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-von-trapp
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:08:19.964Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-von-trapp"
name: "Maria von Trapp"
slug: "maria-von-trapp"
description: "Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS, often styled as \"Baroness\", was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family. She wrote the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version."
tagline: "Matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (1905–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baroness_Maria_von_Trapp_1940.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-01-26"
deathDate: "1987-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.015330971883994
  historical:           24.36631333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0903125"
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    title: "Maria von Trapp"
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    title: "Трапп, Мария фон"
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    title: "මරියා වොන් ට්‍රැප්"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump