# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marike-de-klerk
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:00:57.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marike-de-klerk"
name: "Marike de Klerk"
slug: "marike-de-klerk"
description: "Marike de Klerk was the First Lady of South Africa, as the wife of State President Frederik Willem de Klerk, from 1989–1994. She was also a politician of the former governing National Party in her own right. De Klerk was murdered in her Cape Town home in 2001."
tagline: "First Lady of South Africa"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marike_de_klerk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1937-03-29"
deathDate: "2001-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.32
  momentum:             0.9740259740259737
  historical:           5.998205333333334
  currentAttention:     5.41125541125541
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marike_de_Klerk"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marike_de_Klerk"
    title: "Marike de Klerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marike_de_Klerk"
    title: "Marike de Klerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marike_de_Klerk"
    title: "Marike de Klerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marike_de_Klerk"
    title: "Marike de Klerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marike_de_Klerk"
    title: "Marike de Klerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marike_de_Klerk"
    title: "Marike de Klerk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6763428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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