# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rita-lobato
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:05:02.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rita-lobato"
name: "Rita Lobato"
slug: "rita-lobato"
description: "Rita Lobato Velho Lopes was the first woman to earn a degree in Brazil to practice medicine. She was the second Brazilian woman physician, following Maria Augusta Generoso Estrela, who earned a degree from the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women in 1881. Lobato received her degree in 1887 from the Faculty of Medicine of Bahia. Her initial enrollment caused debate, with some people arguing that women had brains too small to understand medicine or that a female doctor would never find a husband, although others were in favor of her entrance and the Echo das Damas\n saw her as an example for Brazilian girls. She did, in fact, marry and practised medicine for several years."
tagline: "Brazilian physician (1866–1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ritalobato.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1866-06-07"
deathDate: "1954-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.46
  momentum:             0.2769230769230769
  historical:           7.678690666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Лобату, Рита"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتا لوباتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Lobato"
    title: "Rita Lobato"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Lobato"
    title: "Rita Lobato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Lobato"
    title: "Rita Lobato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Lobato"
    title: "Rita Lobato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1_%D4%BC%D5%B8%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82"
    title: "Ռիտա Լոբատու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8A%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8B"
    title: "റിത ലൊബാറ്റോ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Lobato"
    title: "Rita Lobato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7336559"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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