# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miriam-matthews
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:51:01.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miriam-matthews"
name: "Miriam Matthews"
slug: "miriam-matthews"
description: "Miriam Matthews was an American librarian, advocate for intellectual freedom, historian, and art collector. In 1927, Matthews became the first credentialed African American librarian to be hired by the Los Angeles Public Library."
tagline: "African American librarian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miriam_Matthews_(13270529424).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1905-08-06"
deathDate: "2003-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.6027
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 212
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "ميريام ماثيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "ميريام ماثيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Matthews"
    title: "Miriam Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Matthews"
    title: "Miriam Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "مریم میتھیوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20714414"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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