# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marian-ewurama-addy
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:39:47.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marian-ewurama-addy"
name: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
slug: "marian-ewurama-addy"
description: "Marian Ewurama Addy was a Ghanaian biochemist and the first Host of the National Science and Maths Quiz. The first Ghanaian woman to attain the rank of full professor of natural science, Addy became a role model for school girls and budding female scientists on the limitless opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Marian Addy was also a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected in 1999. In the same year, she was awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science."
tagline: "Ghanaian female science professor and quiz host"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Marian_Ewurama_Addy_for_Wiki_Unseen_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-02-07"
deathDate: "2014-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.34
  momentum:             12.90322580645161
  historical:           11.03852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mos.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Marian Ewurama Addy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marian_Ewurama_Addy"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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