# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nellie-weekes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:33:28.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nellie-weekes"
name: "Nellie Weekes"
slug: "nellie-weekes"
description: "Muriel Odessa \"Nellie\" Weekes was a Bajan nurse and midwife who was active in women's rights issues. Campaigning for better pay and working in social welfare projects, she turned to politics in the 1940s at a time when most women were not politically active in Barbados. Though she unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the House of Assembly three times in the 1940s, she was elected to the Christ Church Vestry in 1958, serving for many years."
tagline: "Barbadian nurse, midwife, politician and women's rights activist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Nellie_Weekes.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1896-08-26"
deathDate: "1990-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268970666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Weekes"
    title: "Nellie Weekes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Weekes"
    title: "Nellie Weekes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "نلی ویکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nellie_Weekes"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Weekes"
    title: "Nellie Weekes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Weekes"
    title: "Nellie Weekes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98969597"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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