# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mpule-kwelagobe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:14:53.792Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mpule-kwelagobe"
name: "Mpule Kwelagobe"
slug: "mpule-kwelagobe"
description: "Mpule Keneilwe Kwelagobe is a Motswana investor, businesswoman, model, and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1999. She was the first black African woman to win one of the Big Four international beauty pageants, the first woman from Botswana to win, and the first from a nation making their debut in nearly four decades, as well as the third African woman to win a Miss Universe title. Kwelagobe had previously been crowned Miss Botswana 1997 and Miss Universe Botswana 1999, and competed in Miss World 1997."
tagline: "Botswana businesswoman, model, and beauty queen"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mpule_Kwelagobe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Models"
  slug: "models"
profileType:
  name: "Model"
  slug: "model"
birthDate: "1979-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.02
  momentum:             1.206094144854224
  historical:           22.01073333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 197
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    title: "Квелагобе, Мпуле"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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