# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-mantell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:13:41.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-mantell"
name: "Mary Ann Mantell"
slug: "mary-ann-mantell"
description: "Mary Ann Mantell was a British fossil collector and the wife of the British paleontologist Gideon Mantell. She is credited – although this is disputed – with the discovery of the first fossils of Iguanodon and provided several pen and ink sketches of the fossils for her husband's scientific description of the Iguanodon."
tagline: "British paleontologist, scientific illustrator and lithographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Mary_Ann_Mantell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1795-04-09"
deathDate: "1869-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.31
  momentum:             0.1809954751131222
  historical:           5.682866666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9057905/"
    handle:    "nm9057905"
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Mantell"
    title: "Mary Ann Mantell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Mantell"
    title: "Mary Ann Mantell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Mantell"
    title: "Mary Ann Mantell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Mantell"
    title: "Mary Ann Mantell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Mantell"
    title: "Mary Ann Mantell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Mantell"
    title: "Mary Ann Mantell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21068856"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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