# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marie-laveau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:11:28.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marie-laveau"
name: "Marie Laveau"
slug: "marie-laveau"
description: "Marie Catherine Laveau was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, an herbalist, and a midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, also practiced rootwork, conjure, and Native American and African spiritualism, as well as Louisiana Voodoo and traditional Roman Catholicism. An alternate spelling of her name, Laveaux, is considered by historians to be from the original French spelling."
tagline: "American Voodoo practitioner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marie_Laveau_by_E.W._Kemble.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1801-09-10"
deathDate: "1881-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           19.241912
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump