# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rokeya-sakhawat-hossain
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:00:45.635Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rokeya-sakhawat-hossain"
name: "Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain"
slug: "rokeya-sakhawat-hossain"
description: "Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of feminism in Bangladesh and India."
tagline: "Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Begum_Rokeya.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1880-12-09"
deathDate: "1932-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.9314
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump