# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/priscilla-hiss
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:10:04.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/priscilla-hiss"
name: "Priscilla Hiss"
slug: "priscilla-hiss"
description: "Priscilla Hiss, born Priscilla Fansler and first married as Priscilla Hobson, was a 20th-century American teacher and book editor, best known as the wife of Alger Hiss, an alleged Communist and former State Department official whose innocence she supported with testimony throughout his two, highly publicized criminal trials in 1949."
tagline: "American wife of Alger Hiss"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Mrs._Alger_Hiss_1954.jpg/330px-Mrs._Alger_Hiss_1954.jpg"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1903-10-13"
deathDate: "1984-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.39
  momentum:             8.550262727194418
  historical:           1.552701333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Hiss"
    title: "Priscilla Hiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42356544"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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