# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marilyn-gaston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:16:27.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marilyn-gaston"
name: "Marilyn Gaston"
slug: "marilyn-gaston"
description: "Marilyn Hughes Gaston is a physician and researcher. She was the first black woman to direct the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. She is most famous for her work studying sickle cell disease (SCD)."
tagline: "American physician"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
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profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.68
  momentum:             1.897810218978102
  historical:           6.805868
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "مارلن گیسٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارلين جاستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Gaston"
    title: "Marilyn Gaston"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Gaston"
    title: "Marilyn Gaston"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Gaston"
    title: "Marilyn Gaston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Gaston"
    title: "Marilyn Gaston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marilyn Gaston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16105083"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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