# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patricia-m-derian
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:26:25.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patricia-m-derian"
name: "Patricia M. Derian"
slug: "patricia-m-derian"
description: "Patricia Murphy Derian was an American civil rights and human rights activist who opposed racism in Mississippi and went on to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1977 to 1981. She was, remembered The Times of London, \"a courageous champion of civil rights who took on some of the world's most brutal dictators in her role as a senior American diplomat\"."
tagline: "American activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patricia_Derian_-_NARA_-_175198_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1929-08-12"
deathDate: "2016-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.805184
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Patricia M. Derian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%85_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "باتريشيا م دريان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%85_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "باتريشيا م دريان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Derian"
    title: "Patricia Derian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Derian"
    title: "Patricia Derian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Derian"
    title: "Patricia Derian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_M._Derian"
    title: "Patricia M. Derian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Дериан, Патрисия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7145705"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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