# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maya-lin
# Generated: 2026-09-02T03:25:21.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maya-lin"
name: "Maya Lin"
slug: "maya-lin"
description: "Maya Ying Lin is an American architect, designer, and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio, to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. She has an older brother, the poet Tan Lin."
tagline: "American sculptor and architect (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maya_Lin%2C_2014_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1959-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           63.51
  momentum:             12.15451490755329
  historical:           23.62588533333334
  currentAttention:     43.83607658716829
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 116
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mayalinstudio_/"
    handle:    "mayalinstudio_"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510929/"
    handle:    "nm0510929"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mayalin.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Мая Лин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maya Lin"
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    title: "Maya Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лин, Майя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maya Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maya Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maya Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump