# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marilyn-vos-savant
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:31:05.999Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/marilyn-vos-savant"
name: "Marilyn vos Savant"
slug: "marilyn-vos-savant"
description: "Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Since 1986, she has written \"Ask Marilyn\", a Parade magazine Sunday column wherein she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects, and which popularized the Monty Hall problem in 1990."
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-08-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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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