# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-carson-breckinridge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:36:53.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-carson-breckinridge"
name: "Mary Carson Breckinridge"
slug: "mary-carson-breckinridge"
description: "Mary Carson Breckinridge was an American nurse midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), which provided comprehensive family medical care to the mountain people of rural Kentucky. FNS served remote and impoverished areas off the road and rail system but accessible by horseback. She modeled her services on European practices and sought to professionalize American nurse-midwives to practice autonomously in homes and decentralized clinics. Although Breckinridge's work demonstrated efficacy by dramatically reducing infant and maternal mortality in Appalachia, at a comparatively low cost, her model of nurse-midwifery never took root in the United States."
tagline: "American nurse (1881–1965)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Mary_Breckinridge.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1881-02-17"
deathDate: "1965-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.090909090909088
  historical:           8.095250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1064833/"
    handle:    "nm1064833"
sources:
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    title: "ਮੈਰੀ ਕਾਰਸਨ ਬ੍ਰੇਕਿਨਰਿਜ"
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    title: "ماري كارسون بريكينريدغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Carson Breckinridge"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carson_Breckinridge"
    title: "Mary Carson Breckinridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carson_Breckinridge"
    title: "Mary Carson Breckinridge"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carson_Breckinridge"
    title: "Mary Carson Breckinridge"
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    title: "مری کارسون برکینریج"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carson_Breckinridge"
    title: "Mary Carson Breckinridge"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Breckinridge"
    title: "Mary Breckinridge"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump