# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-cotton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:10:44.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-cotton"
name: "Mary Ann Cotton"
slug: "mary-ann-cotton"
description: "Mary Ann Cotton was an English convicted murderer who was executed for poisoning her stepson. Despite her sole conviction for murder, she is believed to have been a serial killer who killed many others including 11 of her 13 children and three of her four husbands for their life insurance policies. Her preferred method of killing was poisoning with arsenic."
tagline: "British murderer (1832-1873)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Ann_Cotton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1832-10-15"
deathDate: "1873-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.196468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ماري آن كوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μαίρη Αν Κόττον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "מרי אן קוטון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մերի Էնն Քոթոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "メアリー・アン・コットン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Коттон, Мэри Энн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton"
    title: "Mary Ann Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q292650"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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