# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-wells
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:44:46.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-wells"
name: "Melissa Wells"
slug: "melissa-wells"
description: "Melissa Foelsch Wells was an American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to Cape Verde and to Guinea-Bissau (1976–77), Mozambique (1987–90), Congo-Kinshasa (1991–93), and Estonia (1998–2001)."
tagline: "American diplomat (1932-2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melissa_F_Wells.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-11-18"
deathDate: "2025-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.68
  momentum:             3.675
  historical:           3.073038666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_F._Wells"
    title: "Melissa F. Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_F._Wells"
    title: "Melissa F. Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_F._Wells"
    title: "Melissa F. Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6812687"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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