# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miriam-were
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:42:34.423Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miriam-were"
name: "Miriam Were"
slug: "miriam-were"
description: "Miriam Khamadi Were is a Kenyan public health advocate, academic, and recipient of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize. In 2022, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in public health."
tagline: "Kenyan public health advocate, academic, novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DrMiriamKWere%2C2022-04-09%2Cduring_a_talk_at_AFSC_Corporation_meeting_on_Zoom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.48
  momentum:             5.636363636363636
  historical:           7.471202666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miriam_Were"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ميريام ور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ميريام ور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Were"
    title: "Miriam Were"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Were"
    title: "Miriam Were"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Were"
    title: "Miriam Were"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Were"
    title: "Miriam Were"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "مریم ویری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Were"
    title: "Miriam Were"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6873443"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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