# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prue-leith
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:41:23.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prue-leith"
name: "Prue Leith"
slug: "prue-leith"
description: "Dame Prudence Margaret Leith, is a South African and British restaurateur, broadcaster, cookery writer, novelist, chef, and former university administrator."
tagline: "South African-British chef, writer, television personality, businesswoman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prue_Leith_20181206.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1940-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.75
  momentum:             16.65387108031308
  historical:           7.883108
  currentAttention:     98.49342999546896
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 33
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2283712/"
    handle:    "nm2283712"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.prue-leith.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Prue_Leith"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prue_Leith"
    title: "Prue Leith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prue_Leith"
    title: "Prue Leith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prue_Leith"
    title: "Prue Leith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prue_Leith"
    title: "Prue Leith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kus.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prue_Leith"
    title: "Prue Leith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prue_Leith"
    title: "Prue Leith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7253009"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1911860"
    title: "Prue Leith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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