# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-robertson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:23:02.579Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-robertson"
name: "Ruth Robertson"
slug: "ruth-robertson"
description: "Ruth Agnes McCall Robertson Marietta was an American photojournalist who accomplished many \"firsts\" for women photographers and is also known mostly for photographing Angel Falls in Venezuela and surveying them to establish them as tallest waterfalls in the world; it was published in National Geographic magazine, November 1949. She was born in Taylorville, Illinois."
tagline: "Photojournalist, journalist, explorer (1905–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Photo_of_Ruth_Robertson.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1905-05-24"
deathDate: "1998-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.336573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Robertson"
    title: "Ruth Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "روث روبرتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Robertson"
    title: "Ruth Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Robertson_(Fotojournalistin)"
    title: "Ruth Robertson (Fotojournalistin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Robertson"
    title: "Ruth Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Robertson"
    title: "Ruth Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Robertson"
    title: "Ruth Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7383188"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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